If you don’t want to engage in politics, that’s your choice (we’re lucky enough in the western world that we have that option) but you must recognise that political engagement rests as a privilege. It means you have the choice to deny access to information, to a certain education.
Naira is driven by the questions: How well are members of institutions represented in the present conditions of access to informal, cultural lineage? How are the changing (political) narratives within and beyond them relayed to the present and future and how does it affect our artistic development as a whole? In the project ‘self-governing the art academy’ Naira questions how well the students are represented, if their initiatives are not properly archived; as a consequence, how is this affecting art education?
This is not an artwork, but a case-study that proposes a practice of 'commoning'.
As a long-term student representative, Naira has been involved in the translation of the personal to the political
from the informal to the formal bodies of the art academy.
from the informal to the formal bodies of the art academy.
Foto by Sander van Wettum
Foto by Sander van Wettum
Foto by Sander van Wettum
Foto by Sander van Wettum
Self-Governing the Art Academy: a case study on the Gerrit Rietveld Academie
