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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.
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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.
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Constituind o investigatie a proceselor si schimbarilor care au loc la nivelul comunitatii, arta isi reconfigureaza permanent teritoriul acumuland norme, metode si strategii apartinand unor domenii de gandire conexe. Intentiile sale urmaresc dialogul si confruntarea privitorului cu controversele si subiectele care populeaza sfera publica contemporana.
Daniel Knorr: Trams and institutions 2007,
courtesy of the artist and Goethe-Institut Bukarest
scris de Alina Serban
In timp ce politicile culturale devin un element cheie in reglarea raportului dintre artist, institutie si sfera sociala, interesul comentatorilor in a urmari acest raport este cu atat mai mare cu cat acesta nu se limiteaza doar la experienta estetica, ci se extinde si asupra implicatiilor publice ale artei. Propunand o schimbare a modului in care experimentam spectacolul expunerii, practica artistica contemporana castiga vizibilitate si credibilitate prin relevanta sociala a gesturilor sale.