mostly Wednesday 14-17h, one Thursday, one Friday

Reading Pedagogies - Self-Organised Art Education for Sustaining Life

co-hosted by Annette Krauss (KKP) and CASCO Art Institute (Aline Hernandez, Utrecht/NL)

In the seminar Reading Pedagogies, we examine artistic-educational experiments, their curricula and how they challenge routines of mainstream and dominant society. What is learned, and unlearned in these self-organised experiments? And how is community both practiced and challenged? What role does artistic engagement play? And who has access to these educational realities, and under what conditions?

Through the lens of three case studies, we collectively explore how to approach these educational processes, their visions, and conventions, while reflecting on each case study in relation to our own practices. 

The case studies are:

• School of Improper Education / Kunci Study Forum & Collective (Yogyakarta/ID); https://www.kunci.or.id/

• Maiz/Das Kollektiv (Linz/Astria); https://www.maiz.at/en; https://www.das-kollektiv.at/; 

• Between Utopia and Disenchantment: Looking at the case of Centro Intercultural de Documentación (CIDOC) (Cuernavaca/MX; hosted by Sofia Olascoaga) https://re-imagine-europe.eu/archive/resources_item/sonia-287-sofia-olascoaga/

The aim of this seminar is to collectively study a pedagogy-in-action, and to translate these findings in our respective lived realities. In this seminar we ask what materials we need to look at, in order to move closer to the experiences of actors involved in self-organised artistic-educational experiments and their everyday lives within school settings. How can we artistically approach these materials?  What can we unlearn from these educational processes, their visions and conventions? And who is the ‘we’ anyway?

Participants are a mix of students of Angewandte and participants from the vicinity of Casco eco-system.

References:

Kunci: Tools for Radical Study: A Colelction of Manuals (2021)

Open School: Self-organised Education (2017)

The Funambulist, no.49, Schools of the Revolution. Radical Education and Pedagogies around the World (2023)

To be extended…

• Regular and active participation in the course
• Preparation of seminar sessions through ‘reading’ the distributed material
• Production of a zine/reader of the seminar inputs and findings (including harvests, ect)
• participation of KKP Presentations (at least of  2 other seminar presentations)

 

Seminar Language: English

special: extendable for 1 ECTS

Dates: Some dates are in person, many dates will be online to meet the protagonists in Indonesia and Mexico

Thursday 6.3., INFOmeeting (obligatory) ( 13.00 -16.00 - room DKT 2, VZA7

Thursday 6.3.,  17-20.00 room Flux1, VZA/ - Public gathering and booklaunch with Casco Art Institute

Wednesday 19.3 (14.00 - 17.00 -room DKT 2 & online)

Wednesday 2.4 (14.00 - 17.00 - DKT 2 & online)

Wednesday 9.4 (14.00 - 17.00 - DKT 2 & online

Friday 11.4 (13.00 -16.00- DKT 2 )

Wednesday 30.4 (14.00 - 17.00 DKT 2 & online

Wednesday 14.5 (14.00 - 17.00 DKT 2 & online)

Wednesday 4.6 (14.00 - 17.00 DKT 2 & online)

Wednesday 11.6 (14.00 - 17.00 DKT 2 )

KKP Presentationen: 12.6+13.6.2025