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scris de Bojana Piskur
Education for critical consciousness
We are not taking the Freirean perspective on critical consciousness for granted. It is based on the western conception of the autonomous individual (an enlightened elite guiding the others). Even though Freire is a starting point for us we are also trying to move beyond his ideas and look into the evidence of how people have governed themselves instead, through what Theodore Shannin called “vernacular revolution” (vernacular means not of foreign or learned formation but native, indigenous). The Radical Education project therefore supports the creation of “open spaces” (Vanessa Andreotti) – these are spaces where participants can talk about issues that affect their lives, reclaim the right to question received knowledge and participate in constructions of alternative visions of the future.
scris de Bojana Piskur
What is radical education? Mai mult»
Radical Education is a particular kind of practice and a particular posture aimed at questioning received institutions of institutionalized learning and received assumptions regarding knowledge production, exchange and distribution. It offers protection for autonomous initiatives that go beyond education and solidarity at the knowledge level, creates and nourishes otherness on a variety of expressive levels and establishes a form of human configuration that lies beyond the existing social forms.
The objectives of the project
Meeting between different forms of knowledge – finding cultural alternatives to the one world of education.
scris de Catalin Rulea
Rooly: Dear Bernard, you started the work for feld-records in 2004. Since then you published 6 authors. What are your criteria of selection and how do you perceive the term experimental in music and sound design?
Bernard: We (Heike Schleper and I) have been organizing experimental concerts at that time in a space called Atelierfrankfurt, basically a big house with lots of artist studios and a so called “club”. The label started with the idea of documenting these concert series, we didn’t have the plan to release every concert we did there but the ones that where most interesting to us. Very soon (actually instantly after the first release by Carlos Giffoni) it became clear that we would go different ways as well. Carlos’ CD is a worked over and shortened version of the recording of his concert in
scris de Cosmin Nasui
Gallery Mie Lefever is one of the first north-west European art galleries interested in young Romanian art. Mie Lefever is a real promoter of Romanian contemporary art abroad the country and already has organized seven exhibitions of Romanian artists: Anca Benera, Marius Bercea, Serban Savu, Dumitru Gorzo, Dan Badea, Mircea Suciu.
From the position of a promoter of European art values, Mie Lefever is sharing her point of view, in finding how she sees the potential of the Romanian artists and the local art market in European context.
CN: When did you discover Romanian art and how do you find young Romanian artists?
ML: I’m interested and involved in contemporary art since a long time, so it was natural that I tried to find out the position of Romanian contemporary art, while I was living there for more than one year. I got for the first time in touch with young Romanian art, when I lived in Bucharest.
scris de Catalin Gheorghe
Atunci când vorbim despre cele doua Moldove, partea romaneasca si cea ex-sovietica, ne raportam diferit pe un fond comun de confuzie si ridicol. Poziţiile oficiale, constructele ideologice, coordonatele birocratice si efuziunile politice ocultează nedumeririle cu privire la „adevarul istoric”.
Fiecare parte diplomatica are versiunea ei, iar fiecare cetatean are retinerile si convingerile sale. E dubios. Se vorbeste aceeasi limba, se dovedesc relatii de rudenie, se constata ca se face apel la aceleasi „personalitati istorice” ca fond genetic al identitatii culturale si, cu toate acestea, un dictionar de regionalisme si argouri e dat drept dictionar al limbii unui stat independent si suveran care poarta numele unei provincii istorice a Romaniei.