{"id":3117,"date":"2021-11-29T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:46:46","slug":"the-ignorant-art-school-sit-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/the-ignorant-art-school-sit-in-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ignorant Art School. Sit-in #2."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friday 3 December 2021 – Saturday 19 February 2022: Preview 3 December book on Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An exhibition and event project navigates experiments in art education and alternative pedagogical initiatives from the early 20th Century to the present.<\/p>\n

Declaring that our collective future is determined not by what we know, but by how we create and share knowledge,\u00a0Sit-in #2: To Be Potential<\/strong>\u00a0activates how artistic practice as pedagogy dares education, in the words of bell hooks, to be ‘the practice of freedom’.<\/p>\n

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Political in origin, radical in intent and emancipatory by nature, this radical pedagogy is an inherently social practice. Subverting hierarchies between \u2018those who think they know\u2019 and \u2018those who assume they don\u2019t\u2019, artistic practice as pedagogy is a global phenomenon that recognises no conceptual, discursive or intellectual limits. Characterised by an ethics of equal access and an ethos of generous solidarity, together the radical pedagogical practices featured in\u00a0Sit-in #2: To Be Potential<\/strong>\u00a0transform knowledge from a capitalist commodity to an emancipatory power available to all.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Class meeting vol 1 Gudskul short course 2019. Photo: Jin Panji \/ Gudskul. Image courtesy of Gudskul.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Juxtaposing significant and un(der) explored case studies from the Global North and the Global South,\u00a0Sit-in #2: To Be Potential<\/strong>\u00a0rethinks and unsettles the conventions, hierarchies and economies of access that haunt the creation and dissemination of knowledge. Placing emphasis on knowledge as a collective experience and communal act,\u00a0Sit-in #2: To Be Potential<\/strong>\u00a0will occupy and extend the social and political implications of radical pedagogies from the early 20th century to the present; including the\u00a0Bauhaus<\/strong>, the\u00a0Basic Course<\/strong>\u00a0in Newcastle,\u00a0Anti-university London<\/strong>,\u00a0Copenhagen Free University<\/strong>,\u00a0the Environmental Art course at Glasgow School of Art, Edinburgh Arts Summer School<\/strong>,\u00a0Free University New York<\/strong>,\u00a0GUDSKUL<\/strong>\u00a0in Jakarta,\u00a0The Hedgeschoolproject<\/strong>\u00a0in Ireland, the\u00a0Hornsey Sit-in of 1968<\/strong>,\u00a0The White Room<\/strong>\u00a0in Reading\u00a0Womanifesto<\/strong>\u00a0in Thailand, and\u00a0The Rooftop Institute<\/strong>\u00a0in Hong Kong, amongst many others.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Creative adaptability workshop conducted by Tom Hudson at Edinburgh Arts 1972. Image courtesy of the Demarco Archive Trust and Demarco Digital Archive, DJCAD, University of Dundee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A public event series, titled\u00a0Sit-in Curriculum #2<\/strong>, will situate the archival material and artworks as critical stimuli and generative points of departure, acting as an open space for collaborative and revolutionised learning facilitated by artists, activists, designers, educators, performers, and writers. Indexed by Stuart Hall\u2019s theorisation of the \u2018politics of articulation\u2019 in which culture is not fixed but always subject to negotiation and struggle,\u00a0Sit-in Curriculum #2<\/strong>\u00a0will challenge hegemonical narratives and celebrate grassroots knowledge.\u00a0Sit-in Curriculum #2<\/strong>\u00a0will culminate in an international symposium;\u00a012 Hour Sit-in Revel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To embed an ethos of distributed agency at the heart of\u00a0The Ignorant Art School<\/strong>, artist\u00a0Jade Montserrat<\/strong>\u00a0is commissioned to take on the role of\u00a0Associate Occupier<\/strong>. Devised to be part agitator, part raconteur the Associate Occupier will respond, reflect and contribute to the Sit-in exhibition and Curriculum, actively developing and testing a Blueprint for\u00a0The Ignorant Art School<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Image credit: Environmental Art GSA video workshop. 1986. Image courtesy of Alan Dunn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rooted in the discursive network of\u00a0Sit-in #2: To Be Potential<\/strong>\u00a0is feminist critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak\u2019s evocation of unlearning \u2013 \u2018a stream of learning of how to unlearn and what to unlearn\u2019, which positions knowledge creation as a state of pure potential, a vigilant readiness on the cusp of the new, the radical and the revolutionary. And it is this, the potential of artistic practice as pedagogy to intervene and problematise political and social conditions that\u00a0The Ignorant Art School<\/strong><\/a> invites you to explore in all its creative and radical possibilities.<\/p>\n

Read more on the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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