c o n v e r s a t i o n s 2.0
Workshop, that is part of the Exercise meeting of Another Roadmap Africa Cluster - ARAC, documenta fifteen, 2022.
Fridskul/Fridericianum, ARAC’s space, 1st. floor. About Fridskul.
Kassel.
Conversation with Objects is part of DVX Program of ARAC (Another Roadmap for Art Education, Africa Cluster). ARAC Space in DVX is designed by Christian Nyampeta. Photo by Andrea Thal. The workshop is by rana elnemr.
Centering the consciousness of all matter, we bring into dialogue, objects brought to Kassel by ARAC’s members, alongside those brought in by the wider participants of the workshop. Drawing on hylozoism, the belief that all matter has a conscience and is, in its own way, alive, the conversations start non-verbally between the objects & the participants of the workshop. Objects carry and store fragments of our practice, cultures, and stories. Individual and group activities will be staged, with the purpose of exchanging experiences, prompted by the presence of objects. for more info, pls check the DVX program page.
This workshop is part of the ARAC’s research and practice on the methodologies of art education. “conversations” started in 2017 with the closed interviews & workshop series “Short Conversations on Art and Knowledge” 2017-2019.
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Short Conversations about Art and Knowledge is a closed series of interviews and workshops that are accessible to the network of the project’s participants. The project is one of Cairo Working Group’s Projects. 2016-2019.
Below are short snippets from the project.
c o n v e r s a t i o n s 2.0 : “The Economies of Art and Knowledge”
A multi-phases collaborative work, whose individual parts may function as work and research tools. Highly dependent on versatility and fluidity, the interviews, discussions, collective text- & video- editing sessions, workshops, conversations and other formats of the work, have the purpose of absorbing and sharing knowledge of different essences and forms.
The pieces of this work come together through various material and immaterial exchanges. Special thanks to all those who shared their thoughts and time very generously in the video interviews during the first phase of the project Sep-Dec 2017.
Atef Rostom, Nassif Azmy, Omar Madkour, Reem Saad, Sara El Adl
Additional thanks to contributors who shared their thoughts, time, resources, effort, and their technical- artistic- or linguistic- support during the first phase of the work. Subtitles by Tuqa Zeidan
Ahmad Aiyad , Ahmed El Nemr , Aliaa Ahmed , Andrea Thal , Aly Azmy , Hany El Gamal , Maha Maamoun , Mohamed Abdel Gawad , Omnia Sabry, Samir El Kordy , Shaimaa Atef , Tahani Youssef , Wessam Abdrabu and Participants in the Discussion “Short Conversations on the Economies of Art and Knowledge” at CiC’s Library in Dec 2017.
Short Conversations on the Economies of Art and Knowledge, was first shown as part of a video installation within Local Stories of Arts & Learning at the Contemporary Image Collective. Dec. 2017. cairoworkinggroup.blog
Experiences and views, shared by contributors of Short Conversations on the Economies of Art and Knowledge through the different parts of the work, have been communicated within safe settings that prioritise the process of learning over the presentation of visions and theories. With the purpose of bringing together and building on each other, not-yet-complete areas of exploration and of experimentation are exposed to their vulnerable states. Successive contributors and participators in the work, are asked to generously enrich the pool of exchange and maintain the safe workspace settings and reasonable care in handling all material.
“Exploring Personal Associations to Language”. Seminar, Fall Semester 2019. Ludwig Maximilian Universität (LMU), Munich.
A practical Seminar devised by rana elnemr during her fall semester residency at LMU. Students develop their individual projects in the seminar and they plan, prepare and install their end-semester group show as part of the course.
For info about the seminar please find this & other articles on the LMU (Ludwig Maximilian Universität).
Social Issues and the Image. 2013-14.
A CiC (Contemporary Image Collective) series of booklets that were created in parallel to - & based on - a program of training and workshops that took place in Egypt’s Southern city of Assiut 2013-2014. The program, targeted bloggers, collectives & content creators from the city of Assiut & surrounding areas, who address social issues through still- & moving-images. In its first phase, the program was based on round-table discussions between the participants & on technical sessions addressing the means & contexts of applying certain tools. In the second phase, the participants worked on their projects while supported by internal & external specialists who gave feedback about their work while in progress, as well as giving specialised small lectures on issues such as moral responsibilities, legal liabilities, online security and others. Assiut. 2013-2014. The project’s documentation, including the videos and stills above are by Nada Zatouna.
Downloadable Arabic & english press release & video about the project.
Link to the downloadable Arabic booklets.
Other workshop & educational program development projects include:
Co-designing a 10-day-camp program Counter Academy for Arab Journalism. 2021-2022.
Designing a workshop on future thinking about food, in collaboration with New Silk Roads Organization. 2021.
Devising & instructing an online course on Visual Culture. سمعا وبصرا. Counter Academy for Arab Journalism. 2020.
Designing a 10-day camp program for young adults. Adef Camp for Youth. 2015.
Co-designed & instructed CiC’s media & photography publication & program Alternative News Agency (ANA). 2009-2011.
RampartRetreat Tourism. Rotterdam Architectural Biennial. 2009.
An Architectural Research Project collaboration with Samir El Kordy. 2009