Practising Duet # 1: Ranjana Thapalyal and Olivier Marboeuf

Traversing artistic, design, curatorial, and research-led practices in the humanities and beyond, Practising Duets is a series of trans-disciplinary events organised by The Ignorant Art Schools Collective, a research group of the British Art Network (BAN).

This event is a hosted conversation between Olivier Marboeuf and Dr Ranjana Thapalyal, two leading practitioners who have not yet met to share their reflections on knowledge formation, alternative art pedagogies and decoloniality.

The event will be chaired by Sophia Yadong Hao, Director & Principal Curator of Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, University of Dundee.

The Ignorant Art Schools Collective explores intersections of alternative art pedagogy and new forms of collaborative curatorial agency, the latter often developed outside of Global Majority countries then evident in recent European large scale art events such as ruangrupa’s curation of Documenta 15 in 2022. The collective’s research charts the organisational praxis, spatial politics and power structures of these new forms with the aim of providing working models for enhancing socially conscious and transformative approaches to curatorial practice, art education and knowledge production. The collective’s main researchers are Sophia Yadong Hao (Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee), Dr Edgar Schmitz (Goldsmiths), Dr Paul Stewart and Prof Sarah Perks (both Teesside University).