Let’s Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy
Summary
A three-day international event at Valand Academy, a publication and an online archive investigating queer and feminist pedagogies. What do they mean today, why are they urgent, and how can they be enacted inside and outside of institutional settings? It was the closing event of Valand Academy's 150 year anniversary conceptualized and organized by the feminist pedagogies core working group at Valand Academy.
Supported by
● Valand Academy 150 Year Anniversary Funds
● Research Board Valand Academy
● AND Publishing London (workbook distribution)
● Arctic Paper Sweden,
● V-Tab Sweden
Description of project
Let’s Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy? was a three-day international event investigating feminist and queer pedagogies. This mobilization was the culmination of Valand Academy's 150 year anniversary and builds on the Critical Practice conference (October 2015) and the Meaning Making Meaning exhibition held at A-venue (March 2016).
Let’s Let’s Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy? consists of six distinct parts:
1) Curation of eight forums during the event starting from the following questions: How can we understand justice and diversity in ways that are not blind to differences in gender, sexual orientation, race, class and dis/ability in the name of equality? How can feminist and queer admission policies be developed and implemented within institutions? Can management be thought of more in terms of care than administration? What does it actually require to decolonize the curriculum? What is possible within self-organized learning environments, that is not within the institution? When do we learn? How is knowledge transmitted and validated? What is the agency of publishing and documenting, of citation practices? What are the acquisition politics of our libraries and databases? How can we broaden our understanding of feminist and non-Eurocentric knowledge? What kind of resources are we accessing to do so?
Together let's practice feminist pedagogies: Let's experiment with formats of knowledge production. Let's collectively prepare and eat food. Let's change the architecture of the classroom. Let's test out when and how we learn. Let's rework the role of presenter and the audience. Let's find structures that don't marginalize or silence.
With: Andrea Phillips (Parse Professor, Valand Academy), Annette Krauss (Artist, Doctoral Researcher, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Lecturer, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht), Bedfellows (Artists, Jenny Moore, Chloe Cooper, Phoebe Davies, London), Berit Larsson (Activist, Kvinnofolkhögskolan and Gothenburg University), Erika Alm (Senior lecturer, Gender Studies and program coordinator for Gendering Practices: Master's Programme, Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg), Eva Weinmayr (Artist, AND Publishing, Doctoral Researcher, Valand Academy), Hanna Hallgren (Poet, Professor, Valand Academy), Jenny Tunedal (Poet, Senior Lecturer, Valand Academy), Johanna Gustavsson (Artist, writer, co-founder of FAGS, Gothenburg), Khash Naderehvandi (Poet, Doctoral Researcher, Valand Academy), Rosalie Schweiker (Artist, AND Publishing London), Sarah Kember (Director of Goldsmiths Press, Prof of New Media of Communication, Goldsmiths London), Zahra Bayati (Senior Lecturer, Gothenburg University, Department of Education, Communication and Learning)
Please see attached full program.
2) Editing, printing, publishing of workbook, 144 pages, (print and online) with national and international contributors. See full list of contributors here. Published and distributed prior to the mobilization in order to prepare a common ground. International distribution in partnership with AND Publishing, London.
3) Workbook assemble sessions with students and staff in various BFA classes at Valand Academy and during a public all day workbook assemble session in the main entrance of the academy.
4) Editing and publishing of poster publication consisting of 144 posters (60x80cm), b&w/colour, posted across the Art Academy.
5) Curation of a temporary reading room with The Library of Omissions and Inclusions, during the mobilization event.
6) Curation of film screening and artist talk by Jeuno JE Kim:
First two pilot episodes from Krabstadt, a feminist animated series by Jeuno Je Kim and Ewa Einhorn: Episode #01. Whaled Women and Episode #02. Sex & Taxes. In the exhibition Fruntimmer - A sexy collaboration! at A-venue, Gothenburg, SE, 29 September-15 October 2016
Type of work
Curated three-day event, print and online publication, poster publication, online blog
Published in
● Three-day mobilization: Let’s Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy took place at Valand Academy, Gothenburg University, SE 12—14 Oct 2016
● Online Blog/Archive: Let’s Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy: http://whatisfeministpedagogy.tumblr.com
● Publication/Workbook: Let’s Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy Workbook (print and online), Valand Academy Gothenburg, AND Publishing London
● Krabstadt film screening (Jeuno Kim and Ewa Einhorn): A-Venue Exhibition Space, Gothenburg, SE
● Participation in Exploiting Justice Symposium: Processes, Performances and Politics-a multi/ interdisciplinary symposium at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Research, University of Gothenburg, November 27, 2016
Link to web site
www.whatisfeministpedagogy.tumblr.com
http://whatisfeministpedagogy.tumblr.com/workbook
http://andpublishing.org/lets-mobilise-what-is-feminist-pedagogy/
http://whatisfeministpedagogy.tumblr.com/post/150549265235/workbook-assembly
http://akademinvaland.gu.se/aktuellt/e/?eventId=3175156128
venue.se/Fruntimmer-Ett-sexigt-samarbete29-sep-15-okt-2016
http://andpublishing.org/library-of-omissions-and-inclusions-index/
http://andpublishing.org/library-of-omissions-and-inclusions/
http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/news-calendar/Calendar/Event_Detail/?eventId=5994118388
Other description
● Online archive:
www.whatisfeministpedagogy.tumblr.com
● Workbook download:
http://whatisfeministpedagogy.tumblr.com/workbook
● Workbook international distribution: AND Publishing
http://andpublishing.org/lets-mobilise-what-is-feminist-pedagogy/
● Workbook assembling event:
http://whatisfeministpedagogy.tumblr.com/post/150549265235/workbook-assembly
● Valand Academy webpage: http://akademinvaland.gu.se/aktuellt/e/?eventId=3175156128
● Fruntimmer - a sexy collaboration! exhibition at A-Venue (29 Sept-15 Oct 2016) http://a-venue.se/Fruntimmer-Ett-sexigt-samarbete29-sep-15-okt-2016
● Library of Omissions and Inclusions, open call and catalog
http://andpublishing.org/library-of-omissions-and-inclusions/
http://andpublishing.org/library-of-omissions-and-inclusions-index/
● Related events: Exploiting Justice Symposium at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Research, University of Gothenburg (27-28 November 2016) http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/news-calendar/Calendar/Event_Detail/?eventId=5994118388
Images included:
Image 1: Forum 1: SEX TALK MTG (v), Bedfellows as part of Forum 1: Where do we start? at Let's Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy? 12 - 14 October 2106, Valand Academy
Photo Credit: Kjell Caminha
Image 2: Forum 1: Where do we start? at Let's Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy? 12 - 14 October 2106, Valand Academy
Photo Credit: Kjell Caminha
Image 3: Forum 2: What’s the thing about diversity? at Let's Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy? 12 - 14 October 2106, Valand Academy
Photo Credit: Stefan Jensen
Image 4: Forum 4: When do we learn? — Collectively preparing food at Let's Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy? 12 - 14 October 2106, Valand Academy
Photo Credit: Mary Coble
Image 5: Forum 7: Strike While the Iron is Hot (Red Ladder Theatre, 1972-74), rehearsed reading at Let's Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy? 12 - 14 October 2106, Valand Academy
Photo Credit: Kjell Caminha
Image 6: Forum 8: Where to go from here? at Let's Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy? 12 - 14 October 2106, Valand Academy
Photo Credit: Kjell Caminha
Image 7: Library of Omissions and Inclusions at Let's Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy? 12 - 14 October 2106, Valand Academy
Photo Credit: Kjell Caminha
Image 8: Experiment of live English/Swedish translation as part of Forum 3: Re-thinking where the thinking happens at Let's Mobilize: What is Feminist Pedagogy? 12 - 14 October 2106, Valand Academy
Photo Credit: Stefan Jensen
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Date
2016-09Creator
Borthwick, Rose
Burathoki, Kanchan
Coble, Mary
Engman, Andreas
Weinmayr, Eva
Keywords
feminist pedagogy,
queer pedagogy
feminism
gender studies
institutional activism
contextual publishing
educational turn in curating
justice
non-eurocentric knowledge
mobilization
critical pedagogy
Publication type
artistic work