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The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the landscape of learning in art schools--but what are the crucial and often-overlooked contexts from an anti-colonial, disability justice perspective? And why do they matter for everyone engaged with an art school today? Artists Annabel Crowley and Khairani Barokka contextualise teaching and learning in the current crisis, and inquire into the conversations we all should be having.
Speakers:
Annabel ‘Di Antara’ Crowley is an artist, researcher and teacher from South London of Indonesian and Irish lineage. She has worked in and around disability as a professional’ since 2008, and in embodied and personal capacities for most of her life. In her role as Teaching, Learning and Attainment Coordinator at Central Saint Martins, Annabel designs and delivers staff development interventions into teaching and learning practices, with a particular focus on improving the experience, progress and attainment of marginalised students. As an artist, Annabel’s recent shows Neurodiversions I and II (both 2019) have taken place in tandem with her current MA research into cultures of neurodivergence.
Khairani Barokka is an Indonesian writer, artist, and researcher in London, whose work has been presented extensively, in fifteen countries. She is currently Research Fellow at UAL's Decolonising Arts Institute, and one of four researchers in residence on the Institute's Decolonising Archives programme (a partnership with UAL Archives and Special Collections). She is also Associate Artist at The National Centre for Writing. Among Okka’s honours, she was an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow, Modern Poetry in Translation ’s Inaugural Poet-In-Residence, and a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change. Her interdisciplinary work has been an Artforum Must-See. Okka’s most recent book is debut poetry collection ROPE (Nine Arches Press). Her work centres disability justice as anti-colonial praxis.
Event Format:
- Episode 1 - Crises (15 mins + 5 mins comfort break)
- Episode 2 - Responses (15 mins + 5 mins comfort break)
- Episode 3 - Accountabilities (15 mins + 5 mins comfort break)
- Q&A - 20 minutes
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