Rereading

A Critical Diversity Textbook Workshop

In the summer term of 2017, the ifa project Untie to Tie—Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies collaborated with the Institute for Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts. The seminar was dedicated to a critical rereading of textbooks and children’s books in relation to the politics of representation and language. In response to this textbook workshop, Aïcha Diallo and Annika Niemann are heading a publication project. The publication introduces artistic and educational strategies and global perspectives for the recontextualization, reinterpretation, or transformation of textbook material for educational practices. Based on the textbooks provided by the Remise at the 11. Berlin Bienial for Contemporary Art, Annika Niemann and Aïcha Diallo invite the audience to reflect on how topics such as the continuity of colonialism and racism and the process of “unlearning” can be reinterpreted and reworked from the perspective of critical diversity through the implementation of artistic and educational strategies.

Free admission, limited capacity
The workshop will be held in German 

Supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education