CLUSTERS / GRUPOS

  • Maseru Working Group Organises the Skima Sesotho Workshop Series (April – August 2018)

    Between April and August 2018 the Maseru Working Group organised a series of workshops collectively entitled Skima Sesotho. These workshops, which brought together exercises and discussions about critical multimedia literacy with the BA RE Dictionary Project, aimed to get the Basotho excited about the Sesotho language and to demonstrate the playful malleability of Sesotho. Through…

  • Symposium in Zurich at Shedalle

    The symposium intertwining hi/stories of arts education took place in June 2018 in Zürich, Switzerland. The symposium invited students, art educators, researchers and cultural producers to reflect on the histories of education in and through art. Each day of the symposium started with a participatory activation of the Un/Chrono/Logical Timeline . Results of each session were documented and…

  • Meet, greet and read on sunday – readings

    Meet, greet and read on sunday – readings

    Download texts here: Freire: Pädagigik der Unterdrückten, Kap. II (deutsch) Freire: pedagogy of the oppressed, chapter II (english) Wolukau-Wanambwa: Margaret Trowells Kunstschule (deutsch) Wolukau-Wanambwa: Margaret Trowell’s School of Art (english)

  • Contributions from the Johannesburg and Kinshasa Working Groups published in Artl@s Bulletin 7, no. 1 (2018)

    Essays by David Andrew (Johannesburg Working Group) and Cedrick Nzolo (Kinshasa Working Group) have been published in a special issue of Artl@s Bulletin , “ Mediating Past, Present and Future of D.R.Congo’s Historical Narratives on Art in a Global South Dialogue ” This special issue aims to bring to readers some of the main themes,…

  • Symposium: intertwining hi/stories  of arts education

    Symposium: intertwining hi/stories of arts education

    intertwining hi/stories of arts education Public Symposium: Friday 1st – Sunday 3rd of June, 2018 Class for MA students: Friday 1st – Tuesday 5th of June, 2018 Shedhalle, Rote Fabrik Seestr. 295, Zürich The symposium invites students, art educators, researchers and cultural producers to reflect on the histories of education in and through art. The…

  • Meeting in Maseru – January 2018

    In January 2018 two clusters: intertwining hi/stories and the Africa Cluster met in Maseru, Lesotho. The main purpose for the intertwining hi/stories to meet, was to work on the educational tools of the cluster: the Learning Units and the Un/Chrono/Logical Timeline. The meeting coincided with the 5th Ba re e ne re Literature Festival in Maseru.…

  • Un/Chrono/Logical Timeline

    Un/Chrono/Logical Timeline

    Un/Chrono/Logical Timeline Updates from the making process The idea of making the Un/Chronological Timeline into a card game evolved from an exercise introduced by Nastia and Masha (from the Moscow Working Group) in their workshop within the Vienna Arts Education Festival in October 2017. During the game a temporary interactive timeline was constructed by the participants,…

  • storytelling and creative writing for the Lephephe Print Gatherings (15-16 February 2018)

    storytelling and creative writing for the Lephephe Print Gatherings (15-16 February 2018)

    Puleng Plessie (Johannesburg) and Lineo Segoete (Maseru) joined forces to run a day-long creative writing for high school students at Metropolitan College in Johannesburg. The following day, the students alongside other young people shared their work in a publicstorytelling session during the Lephephe Print Gathering at the King Kong Building.