Session 2A : Reid Lecture Theatre
Friday June 9th, 2023 : 14:00 – 16:30
Overview
This session consists of brief presentations of the two models of extra-institutional artist education, both initiated in 2009: one on the African continent (Asiko Art School) that was committed to a roving pedagogy, positioning the educational institution as one that is ‘based’ nowhere and thus ‘does not know’ in relation to the sites where it manifests; and another (the Nordic Studio) that took place in a small, factory-town in rural Sweden, a ruin produced by extractive logics, and explored committing to this ‘used-up site’ as a place particularly well suited to certain kinds of knowing, particularly about the state of being abandoned by capitalist logics.The remainder of the session will be staged as a reflective dialog, between the principles involved in these two projects (and invited discussants), on their experience of each other’s work, the pedagogic principles at play in relation to the idea of ‘not knowing’, and the most recent outcomes of their work exploring a new place-based, pedagogy at the intersection of their work.
Speakers
Ama Ofeibea Tetteh
Ama Ofeibea Tetteh is founder and lead consultant at Chapter54, a boutique consultancy which exists to help bolster African Creative Economies through Research and Programming. With a background in Graphics & Communications, Research and Programme Management and academic qualifications from Central St. Martins, Goldsmiths College and SOAS; her career portfolio is driven by a passion to harness the Arts and Creative sector to create opportunities and contribute to new narratives about the Continent. Having worked within the Creative and Cultural Industries for over 18 years, her professional offering centres on deep understanding of cultural nuance and appreciation for the artistic as well as the operational.
Odun Orimolade
Daniel Peltz
Daniel Peltz is an artist, researcher and Professor of Time and Space Arts with a specialization in Site and Situation Specific Practices at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. He is also the co-founder of the long-term, place-based artistic research project Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies and its pedagogic arm, the Nordic/Baltic Studio for Continued Engagement, in Rejmyre, Sweden. Peltz’ artworks explore complex social systems, attempting to provoke ruptures in the socio/cultural fabric through which new ways of being may emerge and be considered. To accomplish these goals, he uses a range of intervention, ethnographic and performance strategies.
Serubiri Moses
Oyindamola Fakeye
Oyindamola Fakeye is the current Executive & Artistic Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos, where she previously co-founded the Video Art Network (VAN) Lagos. Oyindamola is a Company Director for Res Artis the worldwide professional body for artists residencies, she also sits on the board of Arts in Medicine Projects which runs the Global Arts in Medicine Fellowship training art and healthcare practitioners on best practices within the field. Oyindamola regularly consults to support learning and participation, digital collaboration, entrepreneurship, grant giving and cultural relations within the creative industries.