Ahmet Öğüt is the initiator of THE SILENT UNIVERSITY, which offers teachers and academics a platform, when they are unable to share their knowledge and skills due to their residence status like refugees, asylum seekers or migrants.
In this talk with Claire Doherty, Ögüt talks about his work “Stones to throw”, which is the key visual to our conference. So, if you want to know the story behind the stones, just watch the video.

One other lecturer of the “Global Academy?” conference will be Koyo Kouoh. She will talk about the RAW Material Company, as a center for art, knowledge and society in Dakar, Senegal. The philosophy of the art center is the belief in visual arts as an important tool, capable of shifting perspectives and the ability for social and political transformation. We are really loooking forward to her presentation.

Further we are very glad to present the American artist and architect Tony Evanko. He is the director of the CASA TRES PATIOS Foundation in Colombia, which is a contemporary art center in Medellín devoted to experimentation, new artistic proposals and alternative pedagogies.

In this short video he talks about the Casa Tres Patios as an art center.

Toleen Touq is one of the organizers of SPRING SESSIONS – a multidisciplinary learning and residency programme based in Amman. Furthermore she is co-initiator of the cross-disciplinary platform “The River Has Two Banks”, operating between Jordan and Palestine. In her presentation at the conference she will speak about the Spring Sessions as a possibility for site-responsive education.

The American curator Diana Campbell Betancourt is based in Mumbai and has been working across South Asia for the last six years. She is the Artistic Director of the SAMDANI ART FOUNDATION in Dhaka and the Chief Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit for the 2014, 2016, and 2018 editions, which has established itself in the five years since its inception as a pioneering, non-commercial research and exhibition platform for contemporary South Asian art.

In this interview Betancourt speaks about the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India as a non-commercial platform for art and the importance of it.

Here we present two more of our lecturers of the "Global Academy" conference!

Anna Colin is co-founder and co-director of OPEN SCHOOL EAST in London, which was founded in 2013 in response to spiralling tuition fees and student debt. It is a space for artistic learning and production that is experimental, versatile and highly collaborative. Colin is a independent curator based in London.

Carla Herrera-Prats has coordinated SOMA Summer since its inception in 2005 in Mexico City. Founded by a group of contemporary artists working in Mexico and abroad, SOMA is an organization dedicated to intercultural exchange. It is a group of artists who have joined forces and created a unique platform within the cultural scene.

Here you can see one of the artistic works of Herrera-Prats project, called Camel Collective, together with Anthony Graves.

Something Other Than What You Are — Trailer from Anthony Graves on Vimeo.

With the title “The spaceship, the body and the book” Gabriëlle Schleijpen is going to start the presentations of various institutions and initiatives during the “Global Academy?” conference on Saturday.

The Roaming Academy as part of the Dutch Art Institute offers an itinerant programme that combines courses in the Netherlands with travel abroad.

In her talk Gabriëlle Schleijpen will take the DAI’s location in Arnhem in relation to its praxis as Roaming Academy as the departure point for some musings on the why, where and for whom of the Global Campus.

More information about the DAI: dutchartinstitute.eu

Gabriëlle Schleijpen talks about her motivation to engage in education:

Gabrielle Schleijpen from Tagore Research on Vimeo.