24./25. April 2015: Global Exclusion and Diversity
PUBLIC EVENING LECTURES
Global Exclusion and Diversity: Reading Migration and Gender in Art Schools
Friday 24 April 2015, 6 pm – 8.15 pm, followed by a drink
The public twin-lecture hosted by Art.School.Differences interrogates diversity, gender and migration in the field of art and art education from a critical feminist and postcolonial perspective. The two lecturers will offer specific tools that enable us to read and critically reflect on differences. Their suggestions are highly relevant to higher education – at ZHdK and other teaching and research institutions – but also to a number of other institutional fields.
18.00h
Welcome note: David Keller, Head of International Affairs ZHdK
Introduction: Carmen Mörsch, Head of Institute for Art Education ZHdK
18.15h
Melissa Steyn (Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
Getting into focus for the 21st Century: Critical Diversity Literacy as an essential lens
“The ‘Critical Diversity Literacy’ framework can be regarded as an informed analytical orientation that enables a person to ‘read’ prevailing social relations as one would a text, recognizing the ways in which possibilities are being opened up or closed down for those differently positioned within the unfolding dynamics of specific social context. The presentation will outline ten criteria for ‘Critical Diversity Literacy’.”
19.15h
Marie Buscatto (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
Art worlds as gendered worlds
“Based on several empirial examples, this talk will try to describe not ony how women tend to find it more difficult to operate as artists than their male colleagues, but also resources and tools women, consciously or tno, use to transgress such gendered limiting processes in order to become and to remain artists over time, and sometimes, even to become famous worldwide arists!”
20.15: Apéro Riche
Location: Hörsaal 1, Level 3 Toni-Areal, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8031 Zurich