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Let’s acknowledge to not-know, have blind-spots and make mistakes. Get out of your comfort zone and take in all these wonderful opportunities to learn and get inspired by our guests and partners. Enjoy!
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"Multivocality for me is more than just a concept; it is the acknowledgment that my story has the same right to be legitimized as a factual source of information, withholding the same value as those of my white colleagues." Read the second blog of ArtEZ student Theatre in Education, Pompadó Z.R. Martha
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Symposium: My learning is affected by the condition of my life
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In January we proudly launched this symposium spread over time centred around a critical reflection on the future of art schools by guest-curator Aude Christel Mgba. In February the symposium will continue experimenting with various forms of learning, listening, touching, transmitting and producing knowledge.
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15 February: pre-recorded talk with Annette Schemmel, Antje Majewski and Aude Christel Mgba
Annette Schemmel talks about the term Système de Grand Frères, about systems of transmission and making of art, spaces of learning and making, and about her book on ways to become a visual artist in Cameroon. Antje Majewski tells about her collaboration with the Senegalese artist Issa Samb around the film La coquille. Register and get the link
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22 February: video streaming interview Amadou Hampâté Bâ and pre-recorded talk
An interview made in 1969 in which Malian writer, historian and ethnologist Amadou Hampâté Bâ shows how colonization, literacy, and at a different level, ethnological work, have broken the springs which allowed this culture to perpetuate and develop. And a pre-recorded talk with Aude Mgba, Karima Boudou and Renée Mboya. Register and get the link
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25 February: video streaming The tree by Tally Mbok
A movie about a man that remembers his life and the stages of his training as a human being. Register and get the link
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Essay: From 'Collective Anonymity' to 'Individual Mark': Rediscovering African Art as a Model for Participatory, Interactive and Environmentalist Education
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The undoubted disconnection between the current system of art and the public, makes art a "white’s thing'' and this idea is increasingly attached to the social life of this activity. How? Dr. Tchandeu Narcisse Santores writes about this in his essay: From 'Collective Anonymity' to 'Individual Mark': Rediscovering African Art as a Model for Participatory, Interactive and Environmentalist Education.
This essay is part of the symposium My learning is affected by the condition of my life. The picture is from a Christian Etongo performance in Yaoundé, 2020.
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10-24 Feb: online screening short essay film
the then + the now = now time
and video registration online conversation Elaine Mitchener
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Last year, London based vocalist, movement artist and composer Elaine Mitchener was our guest together with moderators Ruth van Lenthe and Djuwa Mroivili and she made the podcast and playlist Unheard Voices. We now present the registration of this event, together with an exclusive, temporary viewing option of her essay film the then + the now = now time: a short essay film in lieu of a performance. The film (7 minutes) is accessible online for two weeks from today.
Mitchener’s the then + the now = now time is an exploration of Walter Benjamin's notion of Eingedenken – a historical consciousness in which the past is not understood and glorified as something closed and complete, but rather as a form of remembering that emphasizes the past's relentless presence. Mitchener’s work is permeated by the awareness of past and present forms of discrimination, post-colonial wounds and its effect on humanity.
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Tip: registrations online events State of Fashion
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State of Fashion is a platform originated to re-think the fashion system. In the aftermath of their 2018’s symposium Searching for the New Luxury, and in run-up to their biennial in 2022, they host four interventions for which they invite thinkers and makers from all over the world. They reflect on fashion, its flaws and its future, from a variety of angles. You can watch the video registrations of the first two interventions here. The third edition Fashion against Capitalism was today and will soon be available.
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ArtEZ studium generale curates and organises gatherings, talks, training courses, podcasts and publications about the state of the arts and its relation to today’s challenges. Activities are open to everyone.
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