One of the rooms in Ahmet Öğüt’s upcoming solo presentation Forward!, opening on March 7th, focusses on Learning and Collaboration.
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Collaboration and pedagogy have framed much of Öğüt ’s practice over the past several years. Many of the projects that have arisen out of this engagement have challenged the structures and frameworks within which they operate. This approach is bought together in ‘Strategic Diagram for Non-hierarchical Participatory Radical Democracy’, which seeks to critically address the nature of cultural practice. It is proposed as a kind of practice board to exchange ideas, an free/open source diagram that anybody can use, add comments or change by hand. The diagram will be the starting point for a number of workshops with different groups.
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Ahmet Öğüt : ”What is our practice actually about? When I say us, I mean all mediators: curators, artists, cultural producers, activists, political “hacktivists,” revolutionaries, ontological anarchists, historians, social scientists and so on —anybody, in short, who is trying and thinking about the possibilities of transforming the system. I thought it might be interesting to think together about this diagram from a critical perspective. It can be a kind of practice board (tabula) to exchange critical ideas. I want it to become an open source diagram, anybody can print it, add their comments or change it by hand. After that they can send it to somebody else whom they might think would like to contribute a critical response.”
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