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Lessons in Impropriety | Contemporary And

In October 2016, KUNCI initiated the School of Improper Education (SIE). The call for participants describes the proposed school as follows: an experiment on the sustainability of (both the material and immaterial) economies of the organization.…

Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming

It’s important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased. A declaration of members’ interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to…

AASF: Dylan Gauthier w/ James Voorhies, Bureau for Open Culture | Clocktower

In anticipation of the Alternative Art School Fair hosted at Pioneer Works November 19-20, Dylan Gauthier interviews James Voorhies about his alternative organization, Bureau for Open Culture. Founded by Voorhies, Bureau for Open Culture is a…

Decolonising the University: Lessons from Oceania

In October 2013, students and staff at the University of Hawaiʻi painted this mural on their campus in Honolulu. The mural was painted in protest of the University’s involvement in plans to build a thirty-metre wide…

Truth Matters – 100 Jahre Gegenwart Journal

Does truth exist? And do we still need it? Taking the concept of Négritude as their point of departure Nobel laureate in literature Wole Soyinka and film theorist Manthia Diawara talked about a universal idea and…

Jonathan Basile: Who’s Afraid of AAARG? – Guernica

After my first year of graduate school, I developed a chronic illness and had to withdraw from my program. For the next two years, I was homebound and cut off from the communities of intellectual exchange…

Critical Care in Creative Research

During the 1990s and 2000s, as readers of NiTRO know well, an intensive debate took place among art and design academics as to whether their practices and those of their graduate students could be called research,…

Free the academic conference | The Research Whisperer

We have a problem with academic conference registration fees. Nowadays, it’s not uncommon for a multi-day conference to attract a registration fee in the region of AUD$600 (USD$450, €400, £330). I have seen fees that are even…

Hello Big Institution :: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

For the first time, we are producing an online self-guided course for young people in years 8 to 11* called Hello Big Institution. Created by Australian artist Lara Thoms, it allows you to work from school…

When it Can No Longer Look at Itself, Society Will Always Cull the Arts – CATALOGUE MAGAZINE

I have strong hesitation about writing on the state of the arts in Australia. Like Katie Noonan recently stated on Monday’s Q&A, I also “believe the arts has the power to unify and heal our nation…

The School for Creative Activism | Center for Artistic Activism

“The School for Creative Activism is a participatory workshop infusing community organizing and civic engagement with culture and creativity. “ Tags: beautiful+laundromat radical pedagogy dripfeed_critical_pedagogy

Arts news: Sydney art schools to merge – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Anna Frey Taylor brings us the latest news from the world of books and arts. This week we look at the announcement that the Sydney College of the Arts is set to merge with the Art…

Two Sydney art schools set to merge | ArtsHub Australia

Touted as the ‘creation of a leading centre for visual art and design’, the positive tone of today’s announcement that art schools at The University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney are set…

On Press Releases – BURNAWAY

Language binds humanity together. Which language we speak forms our community, identity, and ultimately shapes our worldview. I believe language—communication in all forms—is meant to bring us together. What use are my words if you do…

Undercommoning within, against and beyond the university-as-such – ROAR Magazine

The university-as-such is a criminal neoliberal and neocolonial institution. It cannot be reformed. It must be abolished and reinvented. Undercommons (n.): The networks of rebellious solidarity that interlace within, against and beyond dominant institutions and power structures…

An angry JAMES MCAVOY sets it straight “If you want your kid to have a better life than you had, art is really important.” | the actors pad

With the UK government set to make even further cuts to Arts Funding, Scottish actor JAMES MCAVOY has set up a fund in his home country to help give children from poorer backgrounds access to the kinds…

Refusal as Research Method in Discard Studies « Discard Studies

Researchers examining waste issues have the potential to uncover particularly sensitive information—that specific places, people or animals might be contaminated— that has very real social and material consequences for communities being studied. We also might be…