Irit Rogoff´s contribution to the encounter
RETHINKING ART EDUCATION at Bragdøya Island, Kristiansand Norway, 7 May 2015.
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About Irit Rogoffs lecture:
Fugitive Study
Within the rampant economies of Neo Liberalism the idea of an independent gesture such as ‘FREE’ that opts out of the system has become decreasingly viable. The interlinked and web like connections between institutional and economic planning has meant that it is virtually impossible to find an ‘outside’ to inhabit with some degree of freedom. This means that we need to think differently about how to find degrees of autonomy and self determination within the systems.
The concept of ‘fugitive’ developed by Harney and Moten nestles at the interstices of what they call ‘the hold’ (the cargo section of transportation and shipping, also the place in which human cargo was transported in slavery). It inhabits organisational fault lines in ways different to offcial activity and planning and it diverts resources in unexpected ways. Perhaps it is important to realise that ‘the fugitive’cannot be planned for, it always already takes place and thus requires a different reading strategy in order to be recognised and interacted with. Therefor the question is how does a classroom become more than a classroom who is actually teaching, who is actually learning, what is being learned, what relation these have or dont have to a curriculum, what kind of attention is produced by whom and to what ends in the august settings of educational institutions. All of these need to be engaged with if we are to gain a genuine understanding of what happens within the life of education.
Irit Rogoff is a writer, curator, and organizer working at the intersection of contemporary art, critical theory, and emergent political manifestations. She is Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, London University where she heads the PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge program, the MA in Global Arts program and the new Geo-Cultures Research Center. Rogoff has written extensively on geography, globalization, and contemporary participatory practices in the expanded field of art. A collection of recent essays, Unbounded—Limits’ Possibilities, is published in 2015 with e-flux journal/ Sternberg and her new book, Looking Away—Participating Singularities, Ontological Communities is forthcoming. Rogoff is also co-founder of freethought, a loose collaborative platform for research, pedagogy, and production based in London, where she lives and works.
RETHINKING ART EDUCATION has been curated by André Tribbensee in collaboration with Lisbet Skregelid and Tormod W. Anundsen.
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I love her thinking. It's always complex and generous