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ACTIVATING ARCHIVES THROUGH RADICAL METHODS: INTERGENERATIONAL CONVERSATIONS
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 histories of 1980s ‘Black Arts Movement’ in the United Kingdom and its impact on artists of…
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RECONSTRUCTING THE ROUTE IMPORTATION OF GERMAN ART EDUCATIONAL IDEAS
This Learning Unit aims at helping the readers to get a glimpse of the big picture of the importation ofGerman art educational ideas to China in the early 20th century. This big picture includes the importationof Western visual arts, aesthetics and art education before 20th century and the historical, political, social-cultural context. The Learning Unit…
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PEDAGOGY AND CRITICISM OF CAPITALISM IN WEST BERLIN FROM 1969
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.
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HOW TO WORK WITH ARCHIVES THAT ARE “NOT THERE”? ENGAGING MEDU ART ENSEMBLE IN THE NOW
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 artists from South Africa, working in Botswana circa 1979-1985. Due…
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Co-creation TOOLKIT for UNESCO
Phase 1 September -December 2023 As part of our residency at Javett-UP we were tasked with developing a toolkit for them as a deliverable to the UNESCO Office for Southern Africa. The project was building on the outcomes of the ongoing National Liberation Movements Heritage Programme implemented by the UNESCO Office for Southern Africa, as…
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2022-2024 Jane Lombard Fellowship
1 January 2023 to 30 June 2024. Presented by the Vera List Center for art and politics, at the New School University in New York city, we had the honour of being nominated by Ozge Erzoy of Asia Art Archive to be in the company of peers doing some incredible and necessary work in their…
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JAVETT-UP RESIDENCY 2023-2024
August 2023 – March 2024 THE PROGRAMME WAS AS FOLLOWS August September October November December January February March
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Photographic archives and nostalgia in Kinshasa
Jean Kamba been active in the conception and execution of this research project through workshops and other activities including interviews with artists; Magloire Mpaka, Baudouin Bikoko and art critic Charles Tumba Kekwo etc. For more context on this timely project, you can read here and here. Interview with visual artist Magloire Mpaka Magloire Mpaka owns…