17 de agosto de 2011

Talks: A User´s Guide to the Millenium. Altes Finanzamt. Berlin




August 23, 19:00 at Altes Finanzamt
The Public School Berlin+ A User´s Guide: counter education.

- The Public School Berlin .
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up.

- The Intention; Las Lindes; 15M presented by Marta de Gonzalo & Publio Pérez Prieto .
Marta de Gonzalo & Publio Pérez Prieto are artists and high school teachers based in Madrid, developing a theoretical work and artistic practice on audiovisual literacy and critical pedagogies. They are involved in teacher's training, education of artists and self-representation projects with youth. They understand the cultural production as poetic and formal instrument of representation that guide to personal and collective critical attitudes.

August 26, 19:00 at Program
The Public School Berlin + A User´s Guide: The Impossibility of Teaching.

If teaching is understood as the transmission of knowledge, does that imply that knowledge can be "had"? And can we rethink pedagogy if we leave this conceptual metaphor (knowledge = possession) behind us? If we assume that knowledge is impossible to have, how does that affect the space of teaching, and authority itself? What becomes of the impossible desire to overcome our teachers, who are always "supposed to know" (Lacan)?

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A User´s Guide to the Millenium
Coordinated by Regina de Miguel, María Ptqk and Lorenzo Sandoval.

This is the second of a series of sessions devoted to the backstage of artistic and cultural projects: money, precariousness, legal stuff, education, pedagogy, working conditions, etc. Those issues we usually address when the public event is over and we go for a beer, as if they were not a structural part of what we do (even though we know they are).


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