Event overview
Dr Anna Colin (Curating, Goldsmiths) and Gudskul (ruangrupa, Jakarta) in conversation about knowledge practices, alternative art pedagogies and decoloniality.
Traversing artistic, design, curatorial, and research-led practices in the humanities and beyond, Practising Duets is a series of trans-disciplinary events organised by The Ignorant Art Schools Collective, a research group of the British Art Network (BAN).
This event is a hosted conversation between Dr Anna Colin and Gudskul, two leading practitioners who are coming together to continue a conversation sharing their reflections on knowledge formation, alternative art pedagogies and decoloniality. The event will be chaired by Edgar Schmitz, Director of the Art Research MPhil/ PhD programme at Goldsmiths.
The Ignorant Art Schools Collective explores intersections of alternative art pedagogy and new forms of collaborative curatorial agency, the latter often developed in Global Majority contexts and then evident in recent European large scale art events such as ruangrupa’s curation of Documenta 15 in 2022. The Collective’s research charts the organisational praxis, spatial politics and power structures of these new forms with the aim of providing working models for enhancing socially conscious and transformative approaches to curatorial practice, art education and knowledge production. The collective’s main researchers are Sophia Yadong Hao (Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee), Dr Edgar Schmitz (Goldsmiths), Dr Paul Stewart and Prof Sarah Perks (both Teesside University).
The Ignorant Art Schools is a current BAN-supported Research Group.
Contributor biographies:
Dr Anna Colin has worked as a curator for the past twenty years, whether in a freelance or institutional capacity. Her work is engaged with collaborative processes and cultural practices invested at local, social, educational, and environmental levels. Invested in counter-hegemonic spaces, histories, and figures, her practice straddles the curatorial, the pedagogical, the social, the ecological, and the horticultural.
Gudskul: Collective Study and Contemparary Art Ecosystem is a public learning space formed by three art collectives in Jakarta: ruangrupa, Serrum and Grafi Huru Hara (DHH). Since the early 2000s, the three. have been active in the field of contemporary art by exercising collective and collaborative work. n 2015. these collectives agreed to form a joint ecosystem to adapting values emerging from the collective process: equity, sharing, solidarity, friendship and togetherness. The objective of this learning space is to spread the elan of art-cultural work to individuals in order to spark initiative among the public.
The Ignorant Art Schools Collective
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov 2023 | 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
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