Session 4: Unlearning Movement with Arts Collaboratory and Another Roadmap for Arts Education

Session 4: Unlearning Movement with Arts Collaboratory (Al Ma’mal Foundation: Aline Khoury; Más Arte Más Acción: Ana Garzón Sabogal; and Casco Art Institute: Yolande van der Heide) in conversation with Another Roadmap for Arts Education: Sofía Olascoaga and Lineo Segoete Engaging with the question of how to build alliances between artistic and educational practices and institutions in order to make visible and reinvigorate local knowledge and forms of collective learning and actions within cultural and educational institutions. As the matters within this question are prone to neoliberal cooptation, it is imperative to counter the homogenizing and market-oriented approach of networking and its supranational discourse. Lineo Segoete and Sofía Olascoaga from the Another Roadmap to Arts Education network and Aline Khoury, Ana Garzón Sabogal and Yolande van der Heide from the Arts Collaboratory network gave insight into their collective working process over the past years. Ana Garzón Sabogal is director of the Más Arte Más Acción and part of the research group in alternative communication Mutó, la Radio (cartographical and non-conventional radio practices). Más Arte Más Acción is a member of the Arts Collaboratory network with a focus on collective governance. Yolande van der Heide is deputy director at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, where she began as an intern in 2008. Casco Art Institute is a member of the Arts Collaboratory network with a focus on collective governance. Aline Khoury coordinates the exhibitions and public programs at Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem. Al Ma’mal Foundation is a member of the Arts Collaboratory network with a focus on collective governance. Sofía Olascoaga has worked as a curator and researcher. Her practice is focused in the intersections of art and education, through the exploration of encounters, think tanks, and public programs. Her ongoing research, Between Utopia and Disenchantment (Entre utopía y desencanto), focuses on the collective memory and genealogies stemming from intentional community models developed in Mexico in past decades. She was co-curator of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo INCERTEZA VIVA, and academic curator at MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo – UNAM) in Mexico City (2014–15). Olascoaga is a member of the international network Another Roadmap for Arts Education, an association of practitioners and researchers working towards art education as an engaged practice in museums, cultural institutions, educational centres, and grassroots organisations in twenty-two cities on four continents. Lineo Segeote is a woman-child who engages in various forms of storytelling including writing, research, and photography. She is restless, curious, and inquisitive; co-founder and co-director of Ba re e ne re Literary Arts – an NGO that promotes critical literacy creative writing and storytelling; co-convener of the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster; freelance writer; knowledge-management consultant; and a 2016–17 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow from Vanderbilt University in the US of A. Her time there was focused on professional development and academic study related to education administration and policy. Segeote is a member of the international network Another Roadmap for Arts Education, an association of practitioners and researchers working towards art education as an engaged practice in museums, cultural institutions, educational centres, and grassroots organisations in twenty-two cities on four continents.