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Redakzia starts with Maria Draghici and Corina Oprea and becomes extended with all the encounters we make, receiving impulses, looking for references, transforming us in a sort of filter and interpretors. Redakzia is a territoryless lab, which creates temporary structures, where we invite individuals and initiatives from both systemic and anti-systemic education to create ”the possibility”, a situation, which doesn’t exist yet but could be defined only through this new encounter. In the same time, all contribute and shape Redakzia itself as a platform for knowledge circulation, and thus they become part of its collective. Redakzia works in Göteborg through several channels: informal meetings, video interviews, a workshop on shaping temporary social structures, a symposium on modes of resistance in education and a collective editing of the final fanzine Circular Grounds #1. Everyone participating becomes part of Redakzia, through its own reflections, writings and inputs.
Going back to school is to put yourself again in the vulnerable state of the one that needs to learn, the one that doesn’t know, in which you are prepared to search, listen, question, gain and ultimately transform yourself and act. The transformation refers to how we understand knowledge, which is produced through debate and not through learning, through questioning and not through acceptance of the general norm.
The relation between power and knowledge, in the Foucault-ian understanding, is a question of hegemony, which nowadays translates in the capitalization and institutionalization of knowledge. What we are interested in is breaking this hegemony and acknowledge other platforms of education and knowledge production, which may take the form of a university or a grass-root movement with a pedagogical consciousness. The systemic and the anti-systemic are brought to the same table. This leads to a new situation, unfamiliar and uncomfortable for all sides in order to redefine and transform.
Under Circular Grounds #1, we look at different educational initiatives, which happened in present or in the past in Göteborg. The time at Skogen is a pretext – an event - created for the analysis of both differences and commonalities of these experiences. We try to shape together with artists, activists, researchers, and journalists a toolkit on the expanded concept of pedagogy. Redakzia is thought to travel and take place to other spots, but we wanted to start with Göteborg and the Swedish context, where the debate on education is an important issue, being at risk of loosing its free status.
We have contacted several initiatives from Göteborg who are working either directly with education, but also activists, entities or movements who have a pedagogical vision incorporated in their actions. So far we talked with and about Fria Tidningen, Pantrarna, Vulgo café, Queer Institute, Experimentgymnasiet and Clandestino Institute. So far…
Politics of destabilization as a form of resistance it’s more what we work towards, meaning finding those gaps in the system where you can intervene, shake and challenge a fixed structure, a rigid concept. Education has become a production machine of knowledge based on the requirement to respond to the market and its economic rules, like an industry for specialized skills. Knowledge, on the other hand, is part of a social project, which is produced through circulation of information, reflection, feed-backing culture, and critical thought. Knowledge is a collective product, formed by the specificities of different angles and modes of address: radical, academic, in deep analysis and fieldwork. This is why it is essential to create such temporary labs in which each consciousness /knowledge matters and interacts with the others.
Beuys connects the idea of Social Sculpture to the famous phrase: “Everybody is an artist”. That means that everyone can creatively carve the social tissue around him. It’s not only that we can be creative, but we also have the responsibility of doing so. The extended concept of art is being able to create in all aspects of everyday life and work. When this extended concept of art does not refer only to the artistic production or just the artist itself, but it refers to everyone (ref: Everybody is an artist) only then, the concept is activated. Each intention to work becomes the beginning of an artwork.
Our aim is the production of a publication, as a toolkit of methods of alternative educational models. First sketch will be a fanzine produced and released during our last day at Skogen, through a collective workshop. In the future, we aim to structure current and future material in a publication which will reflect on the potential of a new school, influenced both by the anarchic models of the free universities and the systemic academy. The way we work is however through deconstructing the writing and the editing process, thinking of the publication as a social platform, enabling encounters and discussions along the way.
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