The Micropolitics Research Group present Drift II: Education, Occupation
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Drift II: Education, Occupation
Two conversations with friends from Ljubljana
Gasper Kralj, Bojana Piskur and Adela Zeleznik will be in London for three days at the end of June to meet with local housing organisers, artists and educators. With them Micropolitics will drift to two sites interrogating the possibility for creation transversal alliances between sites of art, education and social struggle:
I. Transversal Places:
An informal report and discussion on the Rog Social Centre in Ljubljana
24 June, 7PM
in Bowls Court Social Center, just off Plough Yard,
6 Bowl Court
London EC2A
On 24 June, Gasper Kralj a member of the Rog collective will present on the current state of affairs in an occupied factory in Ljubljana currently under threat by local government. Rog is a completely furnished, programmatically innovative and well visited concert hall, circus and the gallery. The social centre holds regular meetings and weekly discussions with workers living in boarding houses, activists from the asylum seekers home, people without papers, detained in the detention centre in Postojna, the erased citizens of Slovenia and others who recognise the creative, organisational and resistance potential of Rog. The temporary users of Rog represent an inexhaustible wealth of knowledge and experience. In many ways they have become an example to other autonomous spaces of independent art and cultural, intellectual and social activities both in Slovenia and in Europe.
The Rog factory proves that it is possible to organize life and labour without concessions to privilege and profit demanded by the capitalist city management and the advancing eradication of public spaces, including institutions of art, culture, education and social activities. As an active site of occupation, Rog’s uers denounce all forms of eradication of such places and stand committed to defending them.
II. Art Education in the Name of What?
A Report from the Radical Education Project in Ljubljana and
Public Roundtable Discussion
25 June 2008 07:00 pm – 08:00 pm
Camden Arts Centre
Gasper Kralj, Bojana Piskur and Adela Zeleznik, members of the Radical Education project initiated by the Moderna galerija will present on the convergence of groups using processes of militant research and popular education to organise transversally in Ljubljana. Radical Education, an ongoing series of inquiries and events, has worked in the context of social centres, gallery spaces, the street and sites of formal education, bringing together and supporting the work of artists, housing and migration activists.
In the moment: in which pedagogical and affective processes become sites of both seduction and possibility for the neo-liberalising forces of higher education, the programmatic engines of the corporate museum and the crashing waves of gentrification, how might the littany of arts education activities in London be re-oriented, reverse engineered toward and in support of sites of struggle?
Join us for presentations by members of the Radical Education project and local radical pedagogists and informal discussion.
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