Radical Orations on Art, Activism & Education
Posted by DIM on April 8, 2008
- Participating Directors:
- Director of the Dept. for the Investigation of Cross-Pollination (DICP)
- Director of the Dept. for the Investigation of Failure (DIF)
- Director of the Dept. for the Investigation of Meaning (DIM)
- Director of the Dept. for the Investigation of Tactical Education (DITE)
As part of an ongoing conversation on art, activism, and education, we present documentation of radical educational texts broadcast throughout Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago in the style of public orations. The orations are sited in the location of each individual Director, documented, combined and distributed in this pamphlet.
The live interventions draw on the history of the street corner soapbox as a form of sited, distributable education. The documentation presented here intends to combine the temporal, performative, educational and site-specific nature of the project in to a (re)distributable form. In particular, the remixing of the audio documentation is an assemblage of the orations in content and context, somewhat aphoristic and fragmented, this editing down attempts to create connections between both the content of the radical educational texts and the ambient aural experience of the three distinct urban locations where the oration occurred.
Also important here is the prelude conversation that led us to this experimental project. For the participating Directors, this ongoing conversation is as important as this project. As you will see from our conversation, we believe our learning process is integral in a continual praxis dedicated to emancipatory education, critical discourse, and strategies for resistance.
Download the accompanying reader: 23 Readings on Art, Activism & Education.
Radical Oration of Public Education (DICP)
Radical Oration 01: Henry Giroux, “When Hope is Subversive” (DIM)
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