LEGACY
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Activating Archives Through Radical Methods
WORKING GROUP: LONDON AUTHORS: JANNA GRAHAM, EVAN IFEKOYA, RAISA KABIR, RUDY LOEWE AND RAJU RAGE ABSTRACT This Learning Unit is concerned with decolonising art educations, unlearning histories that replicate the colonial gaze, re-formatting our own art educations and a re-positioning of this canon by centring artists and cultural producers of colour. We are focused on…
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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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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…