Johannesburg Working Group on Medu Art Ensemble
The Johannesburg Working Group continues to work on broader histories of arts education in southern Africa projects. At the same time, we consider how this work might become part of Pan African histories of “arts education”, given how arts practices transgressed borders in the 1980s (e.g. Medu Art Ensemble’s work connecting with practices in Botswana, Tanzania, Sweden).
Forsaken (overlapping) Utopias - TIMELINE
As we are all working and living in Vienna, our research mainly focuses on Vienna. Starting from there we are interested in the intertwining of “forsaken” social utopias embedded e.g. in the social housing buildings and their artistic ornamentation. Through this Déjà-vu like associations we connect Chile with Vienna and the 1920s with the 1970s. The timeline tries to frame our main focus with basic information on the development of arts-education and it main events, figures and institutions both in Chile and in Vienna.
Forsaken (overlapping) Utopias
Forsaken (overlapping) Utopias – Vienna Research Group
Main researchers: Carla Bobadilla, Andrea Hubin, Barbara Mahlknecht, Karin Schneider
Research string(s): models of critical pedagogy; activation of historical experiences