Los próximos días 21 y 22 de septiembre se celebra en el centro cultural Magacin de Belgrado el International Theoretical Symposium: Goat Tracks of Self-Education, en el marco de la 41ª edición del festival de nuevas tendencias teatrales Bitef y en el que participaremos presentando projecte3*, cosa de la que estamos muy contentos porque, tanto el planteamiento general como el programa del simposium nos parecen realmente interesantes. Entre otras cosas porque plantea ámbitos de reflexión que nos son cercanos como la relación de la educación y el conocimiento con los sistemas de producción, y propone la práctica colectiva de la auto-educación como una alternativa a las formas de escolarización modernas, como dice Ana Vujanović (editora del simposium junto a Miško Šuvaković) en el texto de presentación «La autoeducación colectiva […] ofrece también oportunidades para la desjerarquización y la construcción de nuevos modelos de colaboración, así como de intercambio, al requerir nuevos protocolos y procedimientos de trabajo por parte de los participantes». El simposio incide también en cual pudiera ser la implicación del arte en estas prácticas educativas bajo las actuales condiciones sociales y económicas.
Todo el material expuesto durante el simposio será publicado conjuntamente por TkH y Bitef en una edición bilingüe del TkH journal titulado Self-education y del que ya os informaremos cuando esté en la calle. Por cierto, Ana Vujanović forma parte del grupo que está llevando a cabo s-o-s-project, una investigación sobre prácticas educativas auto-organizadas de la que ya hemos hablado brevemente en un post anterior, pero que merece realmente un mayor detenimiento… todo llegará.
Como aún no está colgado en la web de Bitef hemos puesto el programa después del ‘read the rest of the entry’ y también el pequeño texto de presentación por si a alguien le da pereza indagar en los links.
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:
September 21, Friday
11.15-11.30: introductory word (editors)
11.30-14.00: theoretical papers/exposures – session 1.1
– Milena Dragićević-Šešić: New Learning Strategies; Peer learning as the method in the teaching cultural cooperation in Europe
– Nikola Dedić: Avant-garde, Post-pedagogy and Late Socialism
– Bojana Cvejić
– Nicolas Siepen: The Flight from the Flight; Film, Politics, Collectivity, Authorship, Trace (Mai 68)
16.00-18.45: presentations – session 2.1
– Jan Ritsema: PAF (PerformingArtsForum): Self-learning programme
– Janez Janša: EDA (East Dance Academy)
– Francisco Rubio, Mariló Fernández: projecte3* – LaFundició
– Oliver Frljić: Highways of Knowledge – CDU
– Marta Popivoda, Bojan Djordjev, Ana Vilenica: s-o-s-project – TkH & Kontekst gallery
September 22, Saturday
11.15-14.00: theoretical papers/exposures – session 1.2
– Marina Gržinić: The Impurity of Education, Knowledge and Self-organization
– Marijana Mitrović: “You’ll Need More Tables than You Think”; Post-pedagogical Interventions in Anthropology and Performing Arts
– Katherina Zakravsky: Ethics and Virtuosity
– Miško Šuvaković: Epistemology of Art; Critical design for procedures and platforms of contemporary art education
16.00-18.00: presentations – session 2.2
– Dalija Aćin, Dejan Srhoj: Nomad Dance Academy
– Vladimir Jerić Vlidi: slobodnakultura.org
– Marta Popivoda: <illegal_cinema>
– Jože Barši: Radical Education
18.15-19:30: discussion/debate – session 3
– all participants et al.
INTERNATIONAL THEORETICAL SYMPOSIUM WITHIN THE 41st
BITEF: Goat Tracks of SELF-EDUCATION
One of the most popular topics in the current Artworld is the production of knowledge, namely education as a means of production of knowledge. It is also the case in the performing arts, which are the primary (although not the only one) focus of the conference.
What is typical of the current context is not only an increased number of educational institutions related to the performing arts, but also the fact that education itself is becoming an artwork.
The question is: why is education becoming so important (or popular?) in the arts today?
A provocative hypothesis is that art, by declaring itself as a production of knowledge, is trying to obtain a new legitimacy in the world of market logic, mass media and internet, in which it has lost its previous position. Therefore, if education is important, the question is whether it could be detoured?
The artists today, as they have been doing since the avant-garde, and especially since the conceptual art, are taking over education into their hands, while understanding the critical potential of knowledge in the upcoming “society of knowledge”. In that way we understand self-education – as learning that is not focused on specialization that will be charged/paid for, but has the critical potential of multitude of “other usages”.
Collective self-education, as a common practice especially in performing arts, offers also opportunities for de-hierarchization and building of new models of collaboration, as well as of exchange, by demanding new working protocols and procedures from the participants.
Belgrade, May 2007
Ana Vujanović
