Thursday 27 September 2018

Swamp Pavilion, Lithuanian Pavilion, Venice

'we' - as substrates

electric charge -- bacteria "participates" ?? -- what are the conditions for participation? Consent? How does bacteria consent? Therefore how do 'we' collaborate with the more than human?

Natasa: // what is the biennale for? (3 days of opening, then electricity and human continue for months - for what?) // racial capitalocene

Elena (HISK): // residency // studio visit - teachers are guests, etc - residents are not student // // organised through food - zero packaging, local food - for 30-40 ppl -- a radically local dinner // // beginning of the process // and to implement into the structure of the relationship // // even how to travel - what does it mean to compare driving vs. ryan air -- the temporality of movement / travel etc. //

Hannah (HISK): // what does it mean to eat together? what is the exchange / encounter // // how do we think about intergenerational community? //

Leander (HISK): // socialist biking - 4 bicycles to be used by all // // intentionally no sign up or system that avoids the production of conflict, or animosity - so more chaotic, but less controlling // // bikes are harvested from the city - freeing neglected bikes //

Robin and Petra ( St Lucas Antwerp): // question of representation and diversity "Why is St Lukas so white?" // create a space of trust even within the power structures embedded in the university system // objectives: changing the curriculum; changing who teaches / staff; // using 'sharing your vulnerability' as a method // we have a responsibility to create a democratic representative // the performance of class - how can we know what our privileges are, to know what our vulnerabilities are? // our institutions are racist, and therefore we working within them are racists - so we are racists, and so we have a responsibility

Ikram (St Lucas): // on silence and getting silenced // so how do we break silence, how do we create a platform // We need to focus on mental health -- silence affects mental health // Trauma and preventing the reproduction of silence

Mathieu Charles (Thomas More Uni - in Mechelen): // works for Minority Forum responsible for culture youth sports and media - and performer (monologue on Franz Fanon) // Eurocentrism - and that POC need to perform 'whiteness' -- but we don't have a decent definition of what decolonisation means // Decolonisations not decolonisation // question: what are your personal responsibilities in relation to decolonial action? what are you willing to give up // notion of violent whiteness

Peter, Jozefien and Sauson (Open Design for Refugees and Asylum Seekers - KASK, Ghent): // 8 week long course - students come for 3 days a week -- structure is 5 weeks of input through peer to peer learning // first course 2016 with 17 participants // how can we open up systems and subsystems in higher education

Kobe Matthys and Giampiero Caiti (Ecole de recherche graphique, Brussels): // interdisciplinary practice and scientific complexity // mentoring // no assignment or team // but work with students in atelier in small groups - to help projects get ahead // how to make the school the project? // question of commons and how to work together at the centre of the reinvention of the school -- open tools, share knowledge, initiate, etc

Olivier Marboeuf and Kristina Solomoukha (Ecole europeenne superieure d'art de Bretagne, site Rennes): // what can I do as an artist to react to what was happening in Ukraine -- quesiton of information started to become the centre of interest // exchange with students from Ukraine, from Georgia // the question of the political body -- // Khiasma (space / practice of Olivier --) a practice of converstaion -- a tool, focus on current conditions and current issues // what are the conditions of the places we are in? who pays the bills? what kinds of bodies can be there? what bodies can't be there? // how are these situations produced and reproduced? // Glissant - the spiral? to being in the traces of the past into the present // what are the conditions that bring you here? What kinds of relationships of trust?

Adam Kaasa (Royal College of Art, London)
//decolonize the curriculum. However, the word is overused. --> internationalize
//internationalize the curriculum: political vs. business language: what happens if you deploy this word?
//Research Master, Architecture school, interdisciplinary and specific. 
//Why are all the readings in English? Even when most students are not from the UK? 
// Architecture is collective, however individualty is stressed. Star system. Can we destabilize this individualism through education?

-- what is fairness -- what is diversity -- renumeration, art as labour, social welfare, distribution of knowledge...?