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Exploring Visual Cultures - Newsletter #5

Exploring Visual Cultures - Newsletter #5

Dear readers, supporters, contributors and friends of EVC,

 

Now that summer in Munich is slowly coming to an end, activities at universities, academies and schools are starting again. We hope you had a relaxing break during the last few weeks as well!

 

EVC was not on vacation; we continued to collect and discuss objects, plan activities and find like-minded people. From transhuman fantasies of the future, or Barbie as a sea goddess in Havana, to our collaboration with documenta fifteen which we are very excited about - there is much to discover!
Have fun with it,


Ernst and Rosa,
on behalf of the EVC team

 


News‍

September 2, 2021: 9th Virtual Meeting of the Expert Panel

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Minutes of the 9th meeting

Present: Paul-Henri Souvenir Assako Assako, Cameroon; Patrique deGraft-Yankson, Ghana; Katharina Hilgert (documenta), Germany; Mary Claire Akinyi Kidenda, Kenya; Avi Sooful, South Africa; Bernadette Van Haute, South Africa; Ernst Wagner, Germany
 

Activities in the context of documenta fifteen

Ernst explains the state of affairs: EVC can invite small teams (5 – 8 people per country) from EVC to the planned documenta summer school (in Kassel in August 2022) and to a final congress (in Augsburg in...


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For art teachers in Germany only:‍

February 15, 2022: "Art Education in Global Perspectives" - Competition for German Art Teachers

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How can we teach Global Perspectives in Art Education?

The association for art education BDK e.V. in Bavaria is organising for the 16th time the competition "Kunststück. Teaching Art" for projects in art lessons in Bavaria. This year’s theme is:

Art education in the Global Perspective

 

The world is changing and with it art and art education. Global perspectives are becoming increasingly important in a world that is becoming "smaller". But how can this be thematized in art lessons? By incorporating new topics and objects or by questioning the traditional...


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New Objects‍ on the Website

Beyond Humanism

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The following work analysis explores the question of whether digital technologies in the (post-)digital age have the potential to break down Western cultural hegemonies with regard to the categorization and political, social and economic discrimination of ethnic, social or sexual minorities. Based on the example of a computer-generated, dark-skinned model and against the backdrop of posthumanist theories, the increasing interweaving of man and technology will be conceived as a motor for the dissolution of the Western-determined systems of man – culture – nature. Meant by this is...


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Barbie - Sacred Beauty Queens on Afro-Cuban Altars

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Havana – the illuminated rectangles of the open doorframes above the streets at night. In the light cone, domino players sit at small tables, surrounded by some kids lingering around. En passant, I catch a glimpse on three white lace dresses in the glow of the doorframes. Three Barbie dolls stare at me from their pedestals, transmitting a flavor of wealth and power. They look glamorous and solemn against the simple cement floor and the few existing furnishings. Three adorned, frilly goddesses, guardians, patron saints, keeping an eye on the unaware flaneur. The situation leaves...


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Chinese Style Porcelain

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Chinese porcelain, a great invention by ancient Chinese, represents Chinese culture. For nearly a thousand years, such an unadorned and elegant oriental treasure has spread all over the world by virtue of its unique aesthetic model. Besides, Chinese porcelain set off a “China Vogue” in Europe in the 17th-18th centuries. Nowadays, museums around the world, especially in Europe, have collected a variety of Chinese porcelains such as blue-and-white porcelains, multicolored porcelains, and famille rose porcelains calcined in Jingdezhen, China during the Ming and Qing dynasties. There...


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New Features‍ on the Website

Exhibitions‍

Back Coupling

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BACK COUPLING - Transnational Dialogues

 

"back coupling" is a group exhibition by young artists at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany together with partners from all around the world. For more than one year the students worked with their colleagues from Ghana, Hong Kong, Japan, Iran, Spain and South Africa on a joint project. The results are videos and sound installations, sculptures, paintings, textile works and mixed media. The exhibition is hosted by three different off-spaces in Munich.

 

"This is the first exhibition...


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LAB‍


Exploring Visual Cultures is collaborative project of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with universities, artists and museums around the world, funded by Engagement Global in the context of implementing the objectives of the Global Learning Framework, and the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs.

Contact: info@explore-vc.org