HISTORIAS ENTRELAZADAS
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Reengaging Freire: Decoding and Re-coding Freire’s “Generative Images” and Critical Arts Education
Image from: Institut d’action culturelle IDAC. Féminin Pluriel. De L’éducation Des Femmes. IDAC Document 21. Geneva, 1980. WORKING GROUP: GENEVA/ZURICH AUTHORS: NORA LANDKAMMER ABSTRACT How do we engage students or participants of a learning programme in a gallery in discussing an artwork in a critical and potentially emancipatory manner? This Learning Unit proposes to reflect…
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Pedagogy and Criticism of Capitalism in West Berlin from 1969
WORKING GROUP: BERLIN AUTHORS: CLAUDIA HUMMEL ABSTRACT 1970, West Berlin. At the height of the Cold War, three years after the revolts staged by students, particularly in Paris, Frankfurt, and (West) Berlin, the publisher Basis Verlag started calling itself a socialist collective. The name of the publisher “Basis Verlag” unmistakably refers to the Marxist pair…
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How to Work with Archives that are “Not There”? Engaging Medu Art Ensemble in the Now
WORKING GROUP: JOHANNESBURG AUTHORS: PULENG PLESSIE AND RANGOATO HLASANE ABSTRACT This Learning Unit is concerned with the politics of archival access or how to work with archives that are ‘not there’. The central story of the Johannesburg Working Group (JWG) is the Medu Art Ensemble (Medu), a collective of informal members; most of them exiled…
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Path: Critical Pedagogy and its critiques
Critical pedagogy, aiming for learning as liberation and an interrogation of societal structures, is a common reference point for engaged art educators. This path invites you to engage with a range of historical references of critical pedagogies and their relevance in current practices. The learning units, beyond introducing historical and contemporary concepts, aim to discuss…
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Path: Letterwriting
How do we conceive of ‘the letter’ as both a personal and a public, collective thing? What would a letter be, if it was liberated from its literary genre? Can a song/poster/manifesto/banner be considered a letter? These Learning Units consider the losses and benefits of a letter in the expanded form. By Rangoato Hlasane FOLLOW…
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Path: Missionary dimensions in Arts Education
A wholistic interrogation and analysis of the extent to which western missionary leadership and autonomy configured arts education in the Global South. These learning units explore the ways in which missionaries, though noble in their cause, were supremacist in their process. Through the research carried out by these working groups, we learn that missionary intervention…
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Path: Reflexive Pedagogies/Critical Literacies
The Learning Units designed by the Kampala, Zurich and Maseru working groups emanate from different working contexts though they are related as kin in that each of them deploys exercises to encourage participants to understand that the texts and media we confront in our lives are never neutral, rather they are imbued with particular positionalities,…
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Reconstructing the Route – Importation of German Art Educational Ideas
WORKING GROUP: HONG KONG AUTHORS: CHENG YUK LIN ABSTRACT This learning unit aims at helping the readers to get a glimpse of the big picture of the importation of German art educational ideas to China in the early 20th century. This big picture includes the importation of Western visual arts, aesthetics and art education before…
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Path: Working with images
In most respects, working with images (whether still or moving) is one of the older modalities of art education, but the preponderance and sheer volume of sensate triggers that presently confront the contemporary beholder call upon much more than scanning and taking in the visual field. The learning units that take on this mode of…