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URgh!#1: alternative art education

URgh!#1: alternative art education

The first issue of URgh! on alternative art education includes critical essays, histories, documents, guides, interviews, fiction, poetry and visual art on alternative art schools, study groups, peer-led and self-organised education, collectivity and collaboration, co-operative art education, mutual aid, alternative economies, creative labour and the critique of neoliberal reforms in higher education. URgh!#1 on alternative art education launches on Saturday, 25 July 2020 at the Alternative Art Education (Slow) Marathon.

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A co-operative art school?

A co-operative art school?

A co-operative art school? is a research project on co-operative education, alternative art education, radical pedagogy and self-organisation, with the ultimate aim of raising awareness about cooperative art education and starting a co-operative art school. The project is supported by an Artquest Research Residency at the Conway Hall Humanist Library.

What would a co-operative art school look like? Who is it for and what would the benefits be? How would it work? These are some of the questions that this research project will address. If you would like to contribute you can fill in the survey or scroll down for more ways of getting involved. Please check back soon, this page will be updated regularly with more information and resources. To receive updates please join the mailing list.

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Radical Pedagogy Research & Reading Group (2019)

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Radical Pedagogy Research & Reading Group

The Radical Pedagogy Research Group is a public forum and peer-led participatory action-research project on alternative art education, radical pedagogy and self-organisation, with the practical aim of developing a self-organised alternative studio programme. The reading group meets on the last Friday of every month, it is free and open to everyone who wants to join as long as they commit to the reading. We plan to organise additional workshops, screenings and other events that will emerge from our research. Please book your place and download the reading.

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ART&CRITIQUE (2015-2019)

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ART&CRITIQUE was a peer-led and volunteer-run alternative art education network dedicated to critical engagement with art practice, theory and research. It was founded in November 2015 and based at The Field and LARC. We employed collaborative, co-operative and collective models of pedagogy and organisation and fostered alternative models of art education in a series of public events.

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Her Master’s Voice Presents AN IDEAL FOR LIVING

Her Master’s Voice Presents: AN IDEAL FOR LIVING, 2012. Three site-specific multi-channel sound installations, speakers, mp3 players, amplifiers, speaker cable, dimensions variable
Her Master’s Voice Presents: AN IDEAL FOR LIVING (poster), 2012. Three site-specific multi-channel sound installations, speakers, mp3 players, amplifiers, speaker cable, dimensions variable

An Ideal for Living is a sound installation and intervention that periodically broadcasts announcements in public spaces. The announcements are modelled on public service announcements (PSAs) and their content is drawn from political speeches, institutional Tweets, news articles, advertising, personality profiles from self-help books and personality assessment tests popular in the corporate workplace. These include the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Keirsey Temperament Sorter, DiSC Management Strategies, Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), the IPIP-NEO Personality Test and others. Continue reading Her Master’s Voice Presents AN IDEAL FOR LIVING

The Fold (2002)

Sophia Kosmaoglou Ptyx (Omonia Square), 2002. Lambda print, 103 x 103 cm
Sophia Kosmaoglou The Fold (Jan Smuts Airport), 2002. Lambda print, 103 x 103 cm
Sophia Kosmaoglou Involution (De Villiers Graaff Motorway), 2002. Lambda print, 103 x 114 cm
Sophia Kosmaoglou Loop (Durban Beachfront Paddling Pools), 2002. Lambda print, 103 x 103 cm
Sophia Kosmaoglou Elision (Sun City), 2002. Lambda print, 103 x 143 cm
Ptyx (Omonia Square), 2002. Lambda print, 103 x 103 cm
The Fold (Jan Smuts Airport), 2002. Lambda print, 103 x 103 cm
Involution (De Villiers Graaff Motorway), 2002. Lambda print, 103 x 114 cm
Loop (Durban Beachfront Paddling Pools), 2002. Lambda print, 103 x 103 cm
Elision (Sun City), 2002. Lambda print, 103 x 143 cm
 

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