Practising Duet # 2: Gudskul and Anna Colin

Traversing artistic, design, curatorial, and research-led practices in the humanities and beyond, Practising Duets is a series of transdisciplinary events organised by The Ignorant Art Schools Collective, a research group of the British Art Network (BAN). This event is a hosted conversation between Dr Anna Colin and Gudskul, two leading practitioners who are coming together to continue a conversation sharing their reflections on knowledge formation, alternative art pedagogies and decoloniality. The event will be chaired by Dr Edgar Schmitz of The Ignorant Art Schools Collective, Reader in Art at Goldsmiths and Director of the Art Research MPhil/ PhD programme there.

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).

The Ignorant Art Schools is a current BAN-supported Research Group. Learn more about The Ignorant Art Schools by visiting their Research Group Page.