CAMPUS: Fugitive, The Unexpected Beautiful Phrase, Nottingham Contemporary, 4th May 2019
‘The waste lives for those moments beyond teaching when you give away the unexpected beautiful phrase – unexpected, no one has asked, beautiful, it will never come back.’ - Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, ‘The University and the Undercommons’
The second in a series of events exploring ideas around education and critical pedagogies that inform the programme of CAMPUS — a Nottingham Contemporary year-long and city-wide free study programme launching in October — The Unexpected Beautiful Phrase explores the tactics of a fugitive learning; a learning on the run.
Perpetually on the verge of capture yet never fully grasped, the fugitive may flee, hide, disguise themselves, appeal for help or seek asylum from the institution. Through a series of performative gestures, this event will consider how the fugitive learner navigates institutional space, using their own body as a container and disseminator of knowledges that refuse legibility. Featuring performance, reading, installation, sound and video works, this event asks: how can we be fugitive within the constraints of traditional educational models? How can illegibility generate new and disruptive vocabularies? What role does the body play in (un)learning?
Artists: Rosa Johan Uddoh, Christopher Kirubi, Raju Rage, Holly Pester, Dorine van Meel and a film screening by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman
This day-long programme is curated by Pablo Luis Álvarez, Giulia Antonioli, Teal Baskerville, Chloe Carroll, Emily Hale and Laura Luempert as part of the MA Curating Contemporary Art Programme Graduate Projects 2019, Royal College of Art, London.
Book your spot for the day now
The second in a series of events exploring ideas around education and critical pedagogies that inform the programme of CAMPUS — a Nottingham Contemporary year-long and city-wide free study programme launching in October — The Unexpected Beautiful Phrase explores the tactics of a fugitive learning; a learning on the run.
Perpetually on the verge of capture yet never fully grasped, the fugitive may flee, hide, disguise themselves, appeal for help or seek asylum from the institution. Through a series of performative gestures, this event will consider how the fugitive learner navigates institutional space, using their own body as a container and disseminator of knowledges that refuse legibility. Featuring performance, reading, installation, sound and video works, this event asks: how can we be fugitive within the constraints of traditional educational models? How can illegibility generate new and disruptive vocabularies? What role does the body play in (un)learning?
Artists: Rosa Johan Uddoh, Christopher Kirubi, Raju Rage, Holly Pester, Dorine van Meel and a film screening by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman
This day-long programme is curated by Pablo Luis Álvarez, Giulia Antonioli, Teal Baskerville, Chloe Carroll, Emily Hale and Laura Luempert as part of the MA Curating Contemporary Art Programme Graduate Projects 2019, Royal College of Art, London.
Book your spot for the day now