Leading institution: HEAD – Genève

Applicants and Project Managers: Microsillons, Marianne Guarinot-Huet et Olivier Desvoignes

Project team: Marianne Guarinot-Huet, Olivier Desvoignes, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud, Julia Torino, Sophie Vögele, Institute for Art Education (IAE), ZHdK

Project partners: ZHdK, MAMCO, Centre d'art contemporain Genève, MCB-A Lausanne, Centre Pasquart

Financing: Soutenu par le crédit de la Confédération destiné à l’intégration, HEAD – Genève, ZHdK, Direction de la santé, des affaires sociales et de l’intégration (DSSI) du Canton de Berne

Link to article "Réinventer la pédagogie des opprimé·e·x·s pour développer une approche dialogique de l’art contemporain"

This project aims to promote cultural participation in swiss contemporary art institutions in order to reduce social selectivity. To do so, we propose to reinvent – in the light of the challenges of today's migrant society – the tools of Freirean pedagogy, in dialogue with mediators and people who are usually not very visible/audible in cultural institutions. Thus, based on several key concepts developed by Paulo Freire (1921-1997) in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1974) (the founding work of critical pedagogies), it will be a matter of inventing, experimenting and then disseminating new approaches to facilitate the active inclusion of previously invisibilized – and therefore excluded – groups in the production of discourse in Swiss contemporary art institutions.