Lecture Series on Arts, Cultures, Policies & Educational Practices #4

From September 2021 to February 2022, CAMP notes on education is running a series of lectures on Arts, Cultures, Policies, and Educational Practices. In nine online sessions, internationally renowned experts at the interface of Arts, Cultural Policy and Education will present their concepts and approaches. They will be talking about their research within their particular contexts. Through dialogue and knowledge-sharing, participants will have an opportunity to reflect on their own concepts, methods and practical experiences in the context of the upcoming documenta fifteen.

The curatorial approach of the artists’ collective ruangrupa is to locate art in people’s everyday lives and, with documenta fifteen, create a place for shared knowledge production. In line with this concept, the lecture series and its speakers will ask questions about the free and institutionalised spheres of arts and education. CAMP notes on education initiates a dialogue on the social and political factors that influence the emergence of artistic practice.

The series is organized in collaboration with the University of Hildesheim and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The lectures will be moderated by students and held in English due to the presence of international speakers.

CAMP notes on education

CAMP notes on education is a glocal* network of teachers and learners in the fields of arts, arts history, aesthetics, cultural policy and arts education. CAMP uses the practice of lumbung as an opportunity to place the question of contemporary Arts Education in networked and global contexts. For example, what role does it play in relation to artistic and curatorial actors? How does it position itself in the current cultural policy discourse?

The contemporary practice of Arts Education needs new responses to translocal teaching and learning contexts. documenta fifteen should provide a framework for instigating structural change in these areas. lumbung allows CAMP participants to learn about new parameters for horizontal decision-making processes and resource allocation. In the coming weeks and months, CAMP will be working with a growing number of cooperation partners and networks to translate these values, rituals and organizational principles. It will be questioning the foundations and practices of Arts Mediation and looking for ways to learn in and from collectives.

With this focus, CAMP notes on education is constantly growing and opening up spaces for collective and project-based learning.

*glocal = global-local

Thursday November 25, 2021: In search for definition: Investigation into the Concept and Context of Ghanaian art

Speakers: Dr. Patrique deGraft-Yankson and Dr. Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel (Winneba/Ghana)

This lecture analyses the various contexts within which the term Art translates into indigenous Ghanaian ways of life in their multifaceted manifestations. The lecturers will delve into the different concepts and linguistic expressions used in denoting and connoting the term ‘art’ in multi-ethnic Ghana.

Patrique deGraft-Yankson is a lecturer and the Dean of the School of Creative Arts at the University of Education in Winneba. His teaching focuses on the identification and development of students’ creative sensibilities at various levels of education in Ghana. Patrique deGraft-Yankson seeks to contrast the argument for favoring exotic design doctrines in contemporary design education in Ghana with a profoundly deconstructive position. This aims to redefine the role of design for visual cultural relevance.

Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Textiles and Fashion Education Department at the University of Education in Winneba. He is an African fashion and textile historian, a practising textiles designer and sculptor. Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel´s fields of research include not only Ghanaian dress culture and the work of contemporary African fashion designers, but also the decolonization of fashion and Afrocentric practices of hair

Moderators

Nele von Kortzfleisch and Magdalena Kratzer

More information about the event can be found here.

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