"Artology, Cartology, My Aristotle".

As the last of a handful of innovative, cross-disciplinary Performance/ Theatre practice based undergraduate courses surviving since the 1970s, draws to a close, Mine Kalyan traces a history of the educational practice of these programmes:

‘Theatre (Performance) and Visual Art’, School of Art (etc.), UoBrighton, ‘Theatre’ at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, and ‘Creative/Contemporary Art’ at Nottingham Trent University.

These courses represented current leading edge Performance and experimental Theatre professional practices in the field. They also shared their roots in some of the creative (arts) educational ideas and experiments since the early 20^th Century.

As a participant and contributor to these programmes, Mine Kalyan examines the nature of their pedagogic principles in terms of the higher educational reforms/the re-structuring in the last two decades. Drawing on her own action research experiments, she looks toward new models of alternative and creative education within and without the present university context.

This Monday Lecture is dedicated to the recent memory of Ms. Collete King who was an educational pioneer . In the 1970s Colette argued for ‘theatre practice’ as an academically equivalent subject to the theoretically based courses at the time, and set up (subsequently led) the first practice based B.A. Hons Theatre Language programme at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, UK.

The Monday Lecture series was devised with the intention of foregrounding the work of creative practitioners who work across cultures and disciplines, as well as creating the opportunity to make a formal record of a history this work. The lectures are documented and contribute to an archive of contemporary Live Arts.