ELIA’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusivity (EDI) Working Group invites the ELIA community to the fourth EDI Online Session: Decolonising the art school, which will take place on Thursday, 13 June, from 13:00 - 15:00 (CEST) on Zoom.
This session is developed under the topic of ‘Decolonising the art school’ building upon the discussions held in previous sessions and focusing on hidden assumptions and histories from an intersectional perspective.
Together, we will explore the need to decolonise, and what that means? Are the universities and the arts institutions colonial and embedded in coloniality[1], and in what ways is this reflected? What is the role of modernity in colonial endeavour and present coloniality?
Participants are invited to critically reflect on different practices by exploring the context in which their own institution operates. This session also considers artistic and curatorial projects, along with the barriers and challenges of implementing support systems in the frame of decolonisation.
We encourage participants to share resources and good practices during this discussion, in the hope that their insights will inspire others to take positive action. We firmly believe that valuable lessons can be learned from each other, regardless of whether an institution is in the initial stages or has already implemented an advanced policy plan for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).
The discussion will be led by the EDI Working Group members, Vânia Gala from London Contemporary Dance School (The Place) and Cecilia Roos from Stockholm University of the Arts.
All ELIA members were welcome to join and participate!
Please note that registration for this event is open to ELIA members and is free of charge.
[1] “Coloniality is different from colonialism. Colonialism denotes a political and economic relation in which the sovereignty of a nation or a people rests on the power of another nation, which makes such nation an empire. Coloniality, instead, refers to long-standing patterns of power that emerged as a result of colonialism, but that define culture, labour, intersubjective relations, and knowledge production well beyond the strict limits of colonial administrations. Thus, coloniality survives colonialism” (Maldonado-Torres, 2007).
