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part 2 Schedule
March 8–13, 2010
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(All events take place in Hart House, University of Toronto, unless otherwise noted.)

Ongoing
March 1–31
Model for a public space [knot] by Adrian Blackwell
(Hart House, Reading Room)
Opening Thursday March 4, 5:00-7:00

March 2–15
International Artist Residency with Annette Krauss (Utrecht)

Discussions, Workshops, and Events

Monday March 8
Opening Keynote Lecture
7:00-8:30 (Reading Room)
w/ Annette Krauss

Tuesday March 9
9:30 Registration (Reading Room)

Roundtable 1.
“between word/image/action”
10:00-11:30 (Reading Room)
w/ colourschool and Annette Krauss

Roundtable 2.
“between autonomy and heteronomy”
11:30-1:00 (Reading Room)
w/ La Lleca, Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry

1:00-2:00 Break

Workshop 1.
“Extra-Curricular Colour Study”
w/ Kristina Lee Podesva / colourschool
2:00-5:00 (Committees Room)

Wednesday March 10

9:30 Registration (East Common Room)

Roundtable 3.
“between community & collaboration”
10:00-11:30 (East Common Room)
w/ Center for Urban Pedagogy, The Pinky Show

Roundtable 4.
“beyond critique as theme”
11:30-1:00 (East Common Room)
w/ Ultra-Red, Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry

1:00-2:00 Break

Workshop 2.
“Feminist pedagogy as artistic intervention”
2:00-5:00 (Committees Room)
w/ La Lleca

Thursday March 11
Workshop 3A. “D.I.Y. Learning-Weapon” (Day 1 of 2)
w/ The Pinky Show
9:00-5:00 (OISE, Room 12-274)

Reception:
Recipes for an Encounter Book Launch
Toronto Free Gallery (7:00-10:00)
w/ Adrian Blackwell, Berin Golonu, Candice Hopkins, Kristina Lee Podesva, and Marisa Jahn

Friday March 12
Workshop 3B. “D.I.Y. Learning-Weapon” (Day 2 of 2)
w/ The Pinky Show
9:00-5:00, (OISE, Room 5-240)

Workshop 4.
“What is the sound of the pedagogy of the border?”
2:00-5:00 (Co-presented and hosted by Gallery TPW – 56 Ossington Avenue)
w/ Ultra-Red

Workshop 5.
“Concrete Dreams: A Fantasy School”
w/ Radical Education Research Collective (RERC)
7:30-9:00 (Reading Room)

Saturday March 13
1:30pm Screening: Petra Bauer and Annette Krauss, Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given, 2009 Discussion w/ Annette Krauss and Janna Graham
(co-presented and hosted by Gallery TPW, Toronto)

part 2: beyond institutions, programme

pdf programme available for download here

Following the vigorous and contentious proceedings that took place during extracurricular: part 1. between institutions in February, this second part of the conference, titled beyond institutions (March 8–13, 2010), is structured as a meeting of collectives, groups, and activists working on creative initiatives in a variety of locations using explicitly pedagogical models, formats, and tools in their work. Although diverse in background, the invited groups carry common points of reference and characteristics: investigating new formats for knowledge production with critical analysis of power relations at play; investing in local communities; cultivating learning environments that produce new social relations; and making these processes and outcomes public.

The conference features representatives from collectives including the Center for Urban Pedagogyy (NYC), colourschool (Vancouver), Dodolab (Waterloo, Canada), La Lleca (Mexico City), Radical Education Research Collective (RERC) (Toronto), The Pinky Show (Honolulu, Hawaii), Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry, and Ultra-Red (London, UK). The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery’s International Artist-in-Residence, Annette Krauss (Utrecht, Netherlands), will present the opening keynote lecture “Towards Critical Links Between Art, Education and Activism” to kick-start the proceedings.

The setting of the “Reading Room,” an open student space inside Hart House, provides a context for discourses that can potentially be mobilized to diverge from or intervene in the “main curricula” of the larger educational institution. Roundtable discussions will take place in Adrian Blackwell’s anti-hierarchical seating structure, Model for a public space [knot], while public workshops, a book launch, and film screening, will be held in various rooms in Hart House and off-site locations.

participant bios

Monday, March 8

    keynote lecture: Annette Krauss (Utrecht)
    “Towards critical links between art,
    education and activism”
    7:00–8:30pm, (Hart House, Music Room)

This lecture will discuss and investigate the relation between art, education and activism – and whether the power of the conjunction “AND” (e.g. between art “AND” education “AND” activism) could provide a space for social participation, and ideally become a site for political and social negotiations. Through her practice, she attempts to formulate questions and generate practices that engage the social imagination towards critical links between art, education and activism; and, at the same time, tries to avoid being bracketed within these themes; to move towards synergizing these areas, and out of this develop specific ideas, cases, alliances and practices.

Co-presented by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries
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Tuesday, March 9

    Roundtable 1. “between word/image/action”
    10:00am-11:30am (Reading Room)

The artistic use of language structures –such as metaphors– towards generating new conceptual frameworks and tactics for action; considering ways the aesthetic and pedagogical move through respective practices.
Participants: colourschool (Vancouver) and Annette Krauss (Utrecht)
Moderator: Maiko Tanaka
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    Roundtable 2. “between autonomy and heteronomy”
    11:30am-1:00pm (Reading Room)

The limitations and possibilities of working independently from, and within established cultural/educational institutions; exploring the tensions between purpose and outcome
Participants: La Lleca/Rodrigo Hernandez Gomez, Fernando Fuentes (Mexico City); Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry/Adrian Blackwell, Christine Shaw, Greig de Peuter
Moderator: Etienne Turpin
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    Workshop: “Extra-Curricular Colour Study”
    colourschool (Kristina Lee Podesva)
    2:00pm-5:00pm (Committees Room)

Extra-Curricular Colour Study investigates the possibility of naming and selecting a colour in an attempt to represent Extra-Curricular’s overall project. This session adopts various pedagogical devices to engage in this process, among them, orientation, problem sets, glossary, flash cards, atlas, timeline, graphs, and workbook exercises to establish a critical and collaborative colour consciousness. After introducing a theoretical framework and spectrum of candidate colours, participants are invited to offer and debate colour choices.

Wednesday, March 10

    Roundtable 3. “between community & collaboration”
    10:00am-11:30am (East Common Room)

Ways knowledge is creatively produced with, across, and for communities; unpacking/problematizing the aesthetics of collaboration in these processes.
Participants: Center for Urban Pedagogy (NYC); The Pinky Show (Honolulu)
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    Roundtable 4. “beyond critique as theme”
    11:30am-1:00pm (East Common Room)

Exploring the performative processes between revealing relations and transforming them; moving beyond critique as theme or content.
Participants: Ultra-Red (London, UK); Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry/Adrian Blackwell, Christine Shaw, Greig de Peuter
Moderator: Annette Krauss and Maiko Tanaka
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    Workshop: “Feminist pedagogy
    as artistic intervention”
    La Lleca
    2:00pm-5:00pm (Committees Room)

La Lleca is an artistic intervention and a radical education collective that develops different projects in Mexico City´s jails creating a learning and “de-educational” space in which affection and feelings revolve around everything. The purpose of this workshop is to get the participants to reflect on how feelings are involved in any pedagogical situation, and specifically how feelings are always kept under or hidden behind the cognitive and aesthetic structure of the educational settings (classrooms, workshops, seminars, one to one classes, art education for marginalized groups, etc.)in non-institutional or formal educational spaces We will discuss feminist pedagogy and the politics of affection from the experience of working for more than 10 years in different settings and for more than 6 years within the Mexican prison system.
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Thursday March 11

    Workshop: “D.I.Y. Learning-Weapon” with
    The Pinky Show (Day 1 of 2)
    9:00am-5:00pm, Room 12-274, (OISE)

The Pinky Show is an internet-based education project in which animated cats ask foundational questions about the structure and logic of society, do research to find answers, and then create videos, art, and ephemera to share what they’ve learned. It was created in 2005 as a response to the question that goes something like: “In the face of disaster-level human stupidity, what can ordinary nobodies like ourselves do to try to make things better?”

This 2-day workshop: “D.I.Y. Learning-Weapon: Context > Theory > Practice > Reflect (Repeat),” led by HR03, project director of The Pinky Show, mixes small group conversation, practical instruction on the use of media production equipment (digital audio recorders, microphones, digital cameras, etc.), and brief, upside-down introductions to history, knowledge, work, learning, and relationship creation. Some recurring question-themes central the workshop:

    • How can D.I.Y. media production be used as a form of self-education?
    • What constitutes legitimate forms of research for D.I.Y. media projects?
    • How can individuals or tiny organizations make helpful contributions to society, history, and all those other important, big things?
    • What are some of the theoretical and practical relationships between independent media production and becoming more human?

The objective is to help participants conceptualize, plan, and execute for themselves long-term projects. This workshop will be conducted in English and is limited to 12 adult participants. No specific educational or occupational background is required.

For more information about The Pinky Show click here

Presented with the support of the Centre for Media and Culture in Education at OISE.

Location:
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West
Thursday: Room 12-274
Friday: Room 5-240
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    Reception: Recipes for an Encounter Book Launch
    Toronto Free Gallery (7:00-10:00pm )

Book Launch and reception for Recipes for an Encounter (published by Western Front with REV-). Presenters include: Adrian Blackwell, Berin Golonu, Candice Hopkins, Kristina Lee Podesva, and Marisa Jahn. (Toronto Free Gallery)

Recipes for an Encounter (Fall 2009) functions as a literary or discursive extension to the group exhibition “Kits for an Encounter” that was on view at Western Front April 25 to May 31, 2008. Through an interdisciplinary lens that brings together art, architecture, literature, and political science, “Recipes for an Encounter” explores the anticipatory nature of recipes together with their promise of what will unfold, take place, be consumed.
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Friday, March 12

    Workshop: “D.I.Y. Learning-Weapon” with
    The Pinky Show (Day 2 of 2)
    9:00am-5:00pm, Room 5-240, (OISE)

(See description on Thursday March 11)
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    Workshop: “What is the sound of the
    pedagogy of the border?”
    Ultra-Red, 2:00pm-5:00pm (Gallery TPW)

Pre-registration advised but all are welcome – info@extra-curricular.info
For approximately 20 participants

Ultra-red members Janna Graham and Elliot Perkins will perform a ‘listening session’ inviting participants to follow a collective procedure for listening to recordings made during the collective’s long term investigations from within the struggles of migration in the UK and contintental Europe. Combining elements of experimental composition with methods of popular education, participants will also have opportunity to reflect on the role of listening in art, education and politics. Participants from Toronto are also invited to bring recordings and statements in any format responding to the question.
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    Workshop: “Concrete Dreams:
    A Fantasy School” with RERC
    7:30-9:00pm Hart House (Reading Room)

What does a fantasy school look like? How can the school be anchored in a community? Who are the teachers? What are the courses? How are decisions made and by whom? RERC invites the audience to dream up a school. Join a discussion about philosophy and politics, teaching and learning, and material environment. Attendees are encouraged to bring snacks to share.

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Saturday, March 13

    Screening: Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given
    1:30pm screening & discussion with Annette Krauss and Janna Graham (Gallery TPW)

The film Read the Masks. Tradition Is Not Given (2009, 80 min) is part of an ongoing project of the same title by artists Petra Bauer and Annette Krauss, looking at the social and political implications of the Dutch tradition of Zwarte Piet (Black Pete).

The feast of Sinterklaas, in which Zwarte Piet appears, is one of the most celebrated Dutch traditions. Each November, Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) arrives in the Netherlands by boat (an event broadcast on national television) to bring gifts to the children. He is accompanied by numerous Zwarte Pieten, his black-faced assistants with red lips and dark curly hair. While this tradition is cherished in the collective memory of the Netherlands the problematic figure of Zwarte Piet has rarely been discussed in the mainstream media, as attempts to question this figure have generally met with immediate disparagement or ridicule. 

The film captures the project’s trajectory, including the intense public response that it has generated since August 2008, when originally developed in the context of Be(com)ing Dutch, a two-year research project and exhibition at the Van Abbe museum on issues concerning Dutch national identity. Read the Masks. Tradition Is Not Given created multiple occasions to open the tradition of Zwarte Piet to public debate. After an installation at the Van Abbemuseum, a planned but cancelled protest march/performance in the streets of Eindhoven, and a public debate, this film marks the project’s fourth phase, reflecting on the media and discussions generated by the previous parts and putting the phenomenon of Zwarte Piet in a broader context.

This film acts as document, vehicle and pedagogical model, looking at an approach to difficult public discussion around people’s closely held, but rarely challenged, inherited cultural identities. U.K.-based artist, educator and curator, Janna Graham will moderate the discussion with one of the filmmakers Annette Krauss.

Co-presented by Gallery TPW (located at 56 Ossington Avenue Toronto).
Gallery TPW
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