Practising with clay: activities for non-productionist ceramics pedagogy

Slippery Silt is a collaborative research initiative between Kate Hill and Ben Woods to explore and develop practice-led pedagogies centered around working with clay, place, walking, sounding, and listening. It is a cross-university attempt to disregard business-as-usual competitive attitudes, and instead support and nurture mutual growth of teaching resources. We aim to cultivate a particular politics of anti-productionist practice while remaining open to the divergent interests and responsibilities felt by student cohorts, particularly around ceramic activities in the art school context.