Decolonial Futures is an exchange programme organised between the Sandberg Instituut, the Rietveld Academie and Framer Framed in Amsterdam as well as Funda Community College in Soweto, South Africa. The programme was inspired by the desire to work collectively towards a decolonial future in which an equal exchange of knowledges and perspectives from students working across the disciplines of art and design could be established. This year's programme is divided in two terms. Each term will focus on a specific project or thematic informed by some of the current efforts undertaken by counter-hegemonic movements and initiatives around the world. In other words, the projects — by the nature of the participants’ and their institutions’ endeavours and practices — will be centered around questions of decolonisation in the context of art and education.
10:00-17:00 @ Framer Framed
The third workshop of Decolonial Futures 2021-2022 invites Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, a curator, documentary film maker and professor of Comparative Literature and Modern art Culture and Media at Brown University.
Decolonial Futures, an extracurricular program organized by Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam in collaboration with Funda Community College, Soweto, presents a workshop with Aditi Jaganathan at:
Find below an Open Call from Decolonial Futures, which is an extracurricular program organized by Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam in collaboration with Funda Community College, Soweto.
We would like to invite you to apply to Decolonial Futures, a cultural exchange project organised between the Sandberg Instituut / the Rietveld Academie and Funda Community College in Soweto, South Africa.
We would like to invite you to take part in another instalment of Decolonial Futures, an extracurricular workshop programme around questions of decolonisation in the context of art and education.
The first open lecture of the Decolonial Futures programme will be given by curator and researcher Mi You. She will share her thoughts on economic colonization and de-colonization, the urgency of working with “indigenous” cultures and the power relations and symbolic values implicated in it. She will also draw on her curatorial and research experience in which she takes the Silk Road as a figuration for deep-time, deep-space, de-centralized and nomadic imageries.
Dorine van Meel and Ibrahim Cissé (Sandberg Instituut / Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam)
Simangaliso Sibiya and Phumzile Nombuso Twala (Funda Community College, Soweto)
To collectively work towards a decolonial future in which an equal exchange between knowledges and perspectives from art and design students working in both contexts will be established.
extracurricular programma with workshops, fieldtrips, exchange program during two academic years, three semesters
Amsterdam/Soweto
Students of Rietveld, Sandberg & Funda Community College
2018
Decolonisation, Eurocentrism, canon Western art, exchange perspectives, exchange, future pedagogy, politics
Find below an Open Call from Decolonial Futures, which is an extracurricular program organized by Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam in collaboration with Funda Community College, Soweto.
We would like to invite you to participate in Decolonial Futures, an exchange program that centers around questions of decolonisation in the context of art and education, organized between Sandberg Instituut, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and Framer Framed in Amsterdam, as well as Funda Community College in Soweto, South Africa.
Decolonial Futures 2021–2022 will take place across two terms (November–December 2021 and February–April 2022). Participants will work on the making of a documentary whose format and content will be elaborated and negotiated alongside guests filmmakers, writers, and artists.
These workshops take place at Framer Framed, Amsterdam on 9 November, 23 November, and 7 December from 18.30–20.30 hrs, and our guests will be Sara Blokland, Aditi Jaganathan, and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. To attend these workshops, please RVSP by filling in this form.
Some of the starting points we are focusing on are:
What are the ways in which the colonial affect you/your environment in day to day life?
How could you capture that feeling/observation/relation?
How does documentary, as a medium, participate in de/colonial practices of making, representing, and looking? How can the medium become a tool for empowerment?
What methodology can you think of/do you want to apply in the making of a documentary?
The first term will consist of semi-public workshops that will serve to lay the foundations for the collaboration, and address the theoretical, the social and ethical consideration of filmmaking. It will provide participants with the opportunity to critically engage further in the program.
For more information on the program, see the website or write to us at: info@decolonialfutures.org
We are looking forward to welcome you at Framer Framed!
On behalf of our team,
Dorine van Meel, Ibrahim Cissé, Simangaliso Sibiya, and Phumzile Twala
