With contributions from facilitators at the 2020 School, including Abdullah Al Kafri (Ettijahat – Independent Culture); Digital Anthropologist, Kit Braybrooke; International Curator, Dominik Chechowski; and artist/filmmaker, Juan delGado, socially-engaged artist, Isabel Lima, among others. With a special focus on the MÁK Challenge – a key pedagogical element of the School and featuring several of the MÁK work-in-progress conversations between participants at the School.
This 2020 School publication offers a rich mix of international perspectives, exploring the role of the digital and experimental, virtual models of working, together with the challenges and opportunities of cross-border – local to global – projects in an age of community displacement.
How artists are embracing collective methods and the increasing importance of solidarity is explored – with contributors critically reflecting back on the 2020 School, offering readers the opportunity to learn/unlearn together. This publication also has interesting insights into how artists, creative practitioners and art organisations have often chosen in different ways the art of ‘co-operation’ in order to to forge new forms of communality.
The School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice is an initiative of Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts (Ireland) and Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab (UK); the Arts Council of Ireland’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme funds the School.
For queries contact: aine@counterpoints.org.uk
