Towards Alternative Histories and Herstories of African Filmmaking

Dovey, Lindiwe

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“…Critical and radical pedagogy understands students as “transformers of the world” (Freire 2018/1970: 27-29). This involves a “curatorial turn” in teaching, where both tutors and students become, through respectful dialogue, co-curators of the knowledge development and exchange that happens in and beyond the classrooms of HEIs (Dovey, 2018). The curatorial turn is informed by both theory and practice, but also an understanding of the classroom, and the HEI more broadly, as a caring and engaged community.…”

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Embracing collaborations between festivals and higher education: A case study of the ‘Decolonising film festivals and curating African cinemas’ networking event at King’s College London

Sendra

2023

Industry and Higher Education

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In recent years, there has been an increasing awareness of the social responsibility of Higher Education, encouraging knowledge exchange initiatives and impact. This often involves the collaboration with the industry, embracing a curatorial turn in the pedagogic approach. This self-reflexive case study shares the learning, challenges, and opportunities offered by the organisation of a networking event named ‘Decolonising Film Festivals and Curating African Cinemas.’ In so doing, it seeks to offer insights into one such forms of collaboration between Higher Education and the Industry. Through an analysis of the feedback by participants and the discussions at a round-table on decolonising, it highlights the horizontalism and distended environment of the experience, fostering a safe and fruitful discussion that engages in a call to action towards to sought change. In public facing events hosted at the university, the classroom becomes a brainstorming exercise in collaboration. The curatorial turn adopted through collaboration bridges theory and practice. Itlurifies voices in the learning and teaching experience, and collaboratively rehearses potential creative solutions to real life scenarios. It promotes social justice, engaging all participants in the process.

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Embracing collaborations between festivals and higher education: A case study of the ‘Decolonising film festivals and curating African cinemas’ networking event at King’s College London

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2023

Industry and Higher Education

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Streaming the festival: what is lost when cultural events go online

Shipman

Vogel

2022

Review of Social Economy

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Cultural events and collections, as curated assemblies of artists and artwork attended by live audiences, are recognised as a large and growing source of added value in contemporary accounts of 'creative', 'enrichment' and 'experience' economies. We analyse these, and empirical festival studies, to assess the impact on cultural production when the COVID-19 pandemic forces events to cancel or move online. Contrasting the relative optimism of 'enrichment' (Boltanski & Esquerre 2020) with pre-pandemic developments, we argue 'festivalisation' is best understood as a defensive reaction to mediated alternatives. These increasingly offer experientially comparable, lower-cost substitutes for the premium-priced immersive performance on which cultural workers have come to rely, for creative ideas, skills and career openings as well as income. Online channels weaken the eventisation defence and curatorial quests for 'singularity', while remote participation limits audiences' size and mode of engagement, risking permanent damage to vital components of cultural production and valorisation.

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Towards Alternative Histories and Herstories of African Filmmaking

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Embracing collaborations between festivals and higher education: A case study of the ‘Decolonising film festivals and curating African cinemas’ networking event at King’s College London

Embracing collaborations between festivals and higher education: A case study of the ‘Decolonising film festivals and curating African cinemas’ networking event at King’s College London

Streaming the festival: what is lost when cultural events go online

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