Territories of Practice at Tate Britain

The 15th January all stage 2 students participated in a symposium at Tate Britain. Each Territories of Practice presented the topics they have been working on during the last few weeks as well as some of their own work. It was interesting to find out what my other mates are interested in and how their art practise is developing. It also gave a brief summary of the main topics in today's art world, a thing always necessary to be aware of in order to keep your mind and work updated to our context. We could also see very creative ways of presentations which made the whole day much funnier.
Above everything, in my opinion, was the fact that the Tate education department and other staff of the gallery showed interest in what we were into, organized this event and explained to us some of their current projects in this area, such as their learning activities, collaborations with artists inside the museum and everything related with the digital media. In my case, that I am used to Spanish museums where all these activities are very rare not to say they do not exist at all, was an amazing experience to se that in other countries not very far from home things work on a different way, for better in this case. The lack of connections between University and art museums and cultural institutions is jeopardizing the future of many young art students in Spain. There has to be a will from both sides, but neither in University nor in the professional world exists, at least not as much as in the UK.