Light Within – Visualizing Complex Interdependencies by Growing Visual Artefacts. A Serious Game for documenta fifteen Education

 

Manage an energy network to feed procedural sculptures and help them to grow and light up. React to contrary interests in order to create a virtual...

ARTS EDUCATION IN AND THROUGH A TIME OF CRISIS

How arts education can contribute to resolving today’s challenges

 

Today's world faces unprecedented crises: climate change, COVID-19, social diversity and equity issues no matter where we are. As research in arts education has demonstrated the social value, impact and role of arts education in various ways, we would like to gather artists and scholars to discuss how principles and practices of arts education can contribute profoundly to...

Contemporary art and creative clothing practices in Africa and the Diaspora

 

Africa e Mediterraneo Dossier n. 95/2021, edited by Paul-Henri S. Assako Assako, Ivan Bargna, Giovanna Parodi da Passano, Gabi Scardi

 

Artists who work on the material and symbolic transformations of the body that arise from clothing practices can offer an important glimpse into the transformations taking place in Africa and the Diaspora. Clothing through the interplay of compositions and decompositions, combinations and contrasts, the new and the old, allows you to prefigure...

 

Africans have suffered stigmatisation and discrimination at the hands of the colonialists. The hair of the Black African has been negatively labelled as reclusive, elusive and shrinking kinks by the colonialists. This mentality of the colonialists equally manifested in Ghanaian colonial schools established by the early missionaries and the colonialists’ governments. They bastardised and proscribed some Afrocentric hairstyles and beauty culture practices in schools in the name of good grooming and hygiene. This negative remnant of mental enslavement and the colonial legacy of anti-Afrocentric...

 

The study traces the historical origin of ahenema and investigates its socio-cultural relevance in Asante chieftaincy cultural milieu. The study found ahenema as a culturally essential fashion object, whose origin dates back to the eighteenth century, during the reign of the fourth Asante king, Otumfuo Osei Kwadwo Okoawia who ruled from 1764 to 1777; and the queenship of Nana Konadu Yiadom I (whose tenure began in 1768 – 1809). As an essential cultural footwear accessory with densely-layered symbolisms, ahenema became regalia for the chiefdom, a tradition which has remained unchanged;...

by Dianne Minnicucci

 

The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement has motivated schools, colleges and universities to examine the cultural diversity of their curricula and move towards the decolonisation of subjects. Dianne Minicucci, subject leader for photography and a teacher of art at Thomas Tallis school in London, asks how teachers of art, design, craft and photography can begin to diversify, decolonise and ‘make the invisible visible’.

           

         

Zohra Opoku: Cyperus Papyrus, 2015

Screen print...