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Categorised: The Ignorant Art Schools
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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 Olivier Marboeuf and Dr Ranjana Thapalyal, two leading practitioners who have not yet met to share their reflections on knowledge formation, alternative art pedagogies and decoloniality.
The event will be chaired by Sophia Yadong Hao, Director & Principal Curator of Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, University of Dundee.
The Ignorant Art Schools Collective explores intersections of alternative art pedagogy and new forms of collaborative curatorial agency, the latter often developed outside of Global Majority countries 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.
Contributors’ Biographies:
Dr Ranjana Thapalyal is an Indian born inter-disciplinary artist and writer. She lectured for many years at Glasgow School of Art and now works freelance. Her practice spans ceramics, painting, collaborative performance and critical writing. Research areas include materiality in art, cultural identity, and the metaphysical self in relation to all of these. Of particular interest are concepts of self in South Asian and West African traditions, feminist readings of ancient philosophies of the global South, inter-disciplinary and inter-cultural pedagogy. Her book, Education as Mutual Translation, a Yoruba and Ancient Indian Interface for Pedagogy in the Creative Arts (Brill 2018) suggests that a more resilient original voice emerges from awareness of others than from individualism, and that genuine pedagogic exchange changes student, tutor, and the work of both.
Olivier Marboeuf is a writer, performer, independent curator, educator and film producer based in France of Caribbean origin. Olivier founded the independent art centre Espace Khiasma, which he ran from 2004 to 2018, in Les Lilas on the outskirts of Paris, where he developed a creative programme addressing minority representation. He is a member of the cinema and performance collective ‘The Living and The Dead Ensemble,’ and produces films within Spectre Productions, a production company he founded in 2013 in Rennes (France). In 2022, Olivier published the collection of essays, Suites décoloniales: s’enfuir de la plantation (Decolonial Suites: Fleeing from the Plantation, DU COMMUN).
