LEGACY
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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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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.
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REENGAGING FREIRE: PAULO & ELZA IN GENEVA
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 on methods for the critical reading of images by engaging with pictures for learning situations that were created following Paulo Freire’s approach of “generative…