During the lecture, microsillons will present examples of its practice, inside and outside art institutions, with the goal of showing different approaches to participation in artistic-pedagogical projects and different kind of relationships toward the art institutions.

Throughout the presentation, the idea of transformative gallery education will be discussed and the term “agonistic gallery education” proposed, as a way to rethink educational practices in cultural frameworks and to critically look back at some of the collective’s project for le Centre d’art contemporain Genève. The collective will also discuss its long-term action-research around Paulo Freire, which led to several projects and forms, including a collaborative piece in which almost 60 peers around the world answer to the question: To what subjects, tools or tactics should we urgently educate ourselves to reimagine the world in common?

This work aims at thinking education beyond the pre-packaged and ECTS credited contents valorized by the post-Bologna knowledge institutions. At the end of the lecture, the collective will introduce the text “The Ladder of Citizen Participation” by Sherry. R. Arnstein that will be discussed on the next day. microsillons will then propose a small exercice whose results will serve as a basis for the “workshop”’s discussion.