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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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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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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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Reengaging Freire: Paulo and Elza in Geneva
WORKING GROUP: GENEVA/ZURICH AUTHORS: MICROSILLONS – MARIANNE GUARINO-HUET, OLIVIER DESVOIGNES ABSTRACT This Learning Unit offers historical information about the ten years the pedagogue Paulo Freire (1921, Recife – 1997 São Paulo), his wife Elza and their children spent in Geneva in the 1970s. It also presents four experiments, realized by autonomous gallery educators, to reinvent…
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Reflection of Practices through Dialogue with Images and Written Conversations – Activation of Archives of Popular Education
WORKING GROUP: BOGOTÁ AUTHORS: MOISÉS LONDOÑO, NICOLÁS NAVAS, MÓNICA ROMERO, LYZ TORRES, JOHN VÁSQUEZ, MIGUEL VEGA, MARCELA GARZÓN ABSTRACT This Learning Unit shows, with the help of a video we as Bogota Working Group produced, a possibility of how to put central concepts of Paulo Freire into a new and present context. We propose to…
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Maseru Working Group Collaborates with Inkanyiso (ZA) for the Rutanang Project (28 January – 1 February 2019)
Member organisations of the Maseru working group collaborated with Inkanyiso , a South African queer media and activism organisation, to co-facilitate a photography and creative writing workshop for young women. The aim of the Rutanang project was to produce a body of visual and written work on the topic of violence against women and vulnerable…
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Lubumbashi hosts the Cairo and Nyanza Working Groups for an Exhibition, Work Week and Workshop at Waza Art Centre (25 November – 10 December 2018)
The Lubumbashi Working Group invited members of the Cairo and Nyanza working groups to meet them for two weeks at Waza Arts Centre. The invitees were all member of an internal Another Roadmap working group tasked with creating an ‘exhibition kit’ for the Intertwining Hi/Stories cluster, and the aim of this gathering was to continue…
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Maseru and Cuernavaca participate in «Elephants in the Room» at Casco, Utrecht (November 2018)
Elephants in the Room, presented by Casco Art Institute in the Netherlands in November 2018, was the first in a new yearly assembly aimed at becoming a meeting place for art organizations to question habitual institutional patterns and imagine ways of “commoning” together. This year’s assembly was designed to investigate how, in relation to ideas…