These recordings were made during Inquilab reading group sessions with UAL staff and students and form a archive and bibliography of the sessions themselves.

Inquilab is a reading group with a difference. We started in 2019 and have since been running reading group sessions that have specific themes and presenters that relate broadly to concepts around social justice and decolonisation. We encourage an expanded view of what reading can be: an object, visual art, a sound, a poem, blog, podcast and text. We encourage flattened hierarchies and ensure inclusivity and accessibility.

For more information please visit:
https://inquilab.myblog.arts.ac.uk/

Inquilab Readings

This episode is with Eunike Gloria Setiadarma and Perdana “Pepe” Roswaldy

Jangan ketinggalan, ayo dengar tentang riset Pepe dan Nike yang luar biasa penting, tentang perkebunan ekstraktif dan konsep-konsep seputar keluarga dan rumah, tantangan baik di Indonesia maupun di luar negeri sebagai perempuan Indonesia di dunia akademik, dan pentingnya persahabatan yang jujur untuk kebertahanan hidup. Episode ini dalam Bahasa Indonesia, dengan transkrip dalam Bahasa Inggris dan Bahasa Indonesia. 

Don’t miss Indonesian scholars Pepe and Nike on the incredibly vital research they’re doing on extractive plantations and ideas of family and home, the challenges in Indonesia and abroad of being an Indonesian women in academia, and the importance of honest friendships in our survival. This episode is in Indonesian, with transcripts in both English and Indonesian.

Perdana “Pepe” Roswaldi is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Northwestern University in the United States. Pepe is currently studying plantations in Southeast Asia and extractive colonialism. She likes to nap under shady trees and also on park benches. 

Eunike Gloria Setiadarma, or Nike, is Pepe's friend. She is currently a PhD student at Northwestern University studying ideas and feelings, emotions, around family and the concept of home in Indonesia's past.  

Nike and Pepe have created a zine and podcast called Terminal Bus. 


Transcripts

View and download the transcript for this episode:
https://www.arts.ac.uk/ual-decolonising-arts-institute/publications-and-podcasts

Links

Khairani Barokka - https://twitter.com/mailbykite

Ultimatum Orangutan Radio | Episode 4 | Plantations, Making Home, and Academic Colonisation

BA (Hons) Fashion Pattern Cutting 
0:00 Introduction 
2:05 Why I'm sharing my story 
3:28 Overcoming difficulties and hardships 
9:24 How fashion is the art of storytelling 
12:03 Creative influences 
13:45 Multiculturalism and London
15:34 Being nominated for Course Rep of the Year award 
17:48 Taking advantage of the university’s resources
20:17  Final thoughts 

© 2022 University Arts London. All Rights Reserved

UAL Student Voices: Nelson

Te on critical thinking

This reading by Dr Royce Mahawatte was made as part of Inquilab - an alternative reading group at UAL that explores decolonial pedagogy in practice.
For more information about Inquilab visit: 
https://inquilab.myblog.arts.ac.uk/
Dr Royce Mahawatte's research profile can be found here:
https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/609-royce-mahawatte

‘The Walk of Life’ (work in progress) by Dr Royce Mahawatte

Chris Rowell: AI Coloniality and Pedagogy

Ruth Powell: AI Coloniality and Pedagogy

In this episode, Benji Jeffrey chats to Christoph Jones and Melanie King from the Working Class Collective (WCC).

The WCC is a student-run society, founded by Jennifer McMillan and Cristoph Jones in 2020 with an aim to uplift and provide solidarity for working-class students at the RCA.

The WCC acknowledges and celebrates the varied lives and experiences of working-class people through talks, events, exhibitions and social gatherings, and has produced two triumphant summer shows.

At the time of recording, Melanie King is the Interim Chair.

Listen as Benji, Christoph and Melanie discuss:

The formation and growth of the society
What it means to be ‘working class’, intersectionality and cultural identity
How being working class influences artistic practice


About the guests
Christoph Jones is an award-winning conceptual artist based in London. He graduated from the RCA with an MA Contemporary Art Practice in 2023. During his time as a student, he co-founded the RCA Working Class Collective with Jennifer McMillan. His practice encompasses a diverse range of mediums, including 3D digital design, video essays, painting, sculpture, performance, installation, and speculative fiction writing. With a focus on recontextualization, aesthetic abstraction and geographic relocation, his current work explores the transformative power of these processes on ostensibly axiomatic ideological, political and social concepts.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_christophjones/
Website: https://www.christophjones.com/

Melanie King is a working class artist and curator, originally from Manchester, and is now based in Kent, UK. She is a practice-based PhD Candidate in the School of Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art. Melanie is co-Director of super/collider, Lumen Studios and founder of the London Alternative Photography Collective. She is also a Lecturer In Photography at Canterbury Christ Church University. She is represented by the Land Art Agency.
Instagram: https://www.melaniek.co.uk/research 
Website: https://www.instagram.com/melaniekatking/
Learn more about the Working Class Collective
Instagram: @RCAWCC
X (Twitter) @RCAWCC
Website https://www.rcasu.org.uk/organisation/6281/ 

Mentioned in the episode
Jacob Talkowski @jacobtalkowski
Zofia Skoroszewska @zofiaskoro
RCA2022 & RCA2023 curated collections:
RCA2022
RCA2023
Working Class Artist Network Collective Instagram
Article: ‘Impostor syndrome’ is a pseudo-medical name for a class problem, Nathalie Olah
Book: Chavs by Owen Jones
Book: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber 
Essay: What’s the point if we can’t have fun? David Graeber
Resource: Working Class Creative Database
Resource: White Pube Successful Funding Application Library

Learn more about the Royal College of Art
Visit: www.rca.ac.uk
Find out about scholarships and funding available: https://bit.ly/3mEaQjv

RCA Podcast: Being a working-class creative

In this series of three recordings curator Cristiana Bottigella talks to artists about their motivations and experiences setting up self-initiated residencies. This interview is conversation with Cash Aspeek who self-organised a Residency at the Vispring mattress factory in Plymouth.

Cash Aspeek is a London based Artist and Artist Educator. Her practice focuses on overlooked & often discarded materials from scaffolding to seed-heads. She picks apart & forensically analyses, re-doing and re-purposing everyday objects. Her work involves ephemeral sculptures, interventions, performance & photography. Cash has recently been working on her, ‘Developing your Creative Practice’ (DYCP) project, funded by Arts Council England, focusing on her parents 60 year old mattress. She exhibits in group exhibitions in and around London.

With an MA in Inclusive Arts Practice Cash develops and delivers art and design education for schools, community groups and families in museums and galleries specialising in SEND participants. In 2011 she set up Redstart Arts a learning-disabled art group for young adults. Recent works resulted in being exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibitions, 2021&22 and at The Horniman Museum permanent collection. Cash worked with SEND families and curated an exhibition in response to architect, John Hejduk in the McAulay Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts July-October 2022

DIY Residencies – Cash Aspeek in conversation with Cristiana Bottigella

This recording was made as part of Inquilab reading group in April 2024. The reading group theme was Language and Race.
Victoria Odeniyi reads 'Problematising Labels', an excerpt from her PHD titled The politics of remediation – cultural disbelief and non-traditional students, completed in 2015.

Victoria Odeniyi reads 'Problematising Labels'

Oral history interview 10/89/24 with Professor Emeritus Jeremy Till, a British architect, educator and writer, and Head of Central Saint Martins and Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of the Arts London from 2012 to 2022.
 
The opinions expressed in this interview are those of the interviewee, and do not represent the views of any other party.

Jeremy Till - Oral History

Decolonising Narratives

A- - -Z presents ‘16-bit’, an installation by David Blandy. Blandy’s work interrogates facets of post-millenial identity through the lens of globally influential pop cultural forms such as arcade games, hip hop and manga.

The project is set at Four Quarters in Peckham (187 Rye Lane, SE15 4NF), a bar which has built its reputation hosting arcade games and consoles. Two works by David Blandy will be presented. 
The 2015 Workweek Prize has been awarded to David Blandy and A—Z for 16-Bit.
http://www.artquest.org.uk/articles/view/workweek_prize

One is an arcade game made by the artist, the other will be a film screened on the opening night of Art Licks Weekend.

- ‘Duels And Dualities: Battle Of The Soul’ (2011) enters the realm of the 90’s arcade games with Blandy’s alter-egos facing each other in a never ending battle 

- the game will be installed from the 30th of September to the 7th of October 

- ‘Backgrounds’ (2013) will be screened on the 1st of October at 7pm and on the 7th of October at 8pm. This 16-bit aesthetic film looks at the artist and his father’s virtual identities - both represented as their alter-egos, they walk through lo-res landscapes and discuss their respective practices. 

The choice of these two works reflects the artist’s play on identities, the retro-virtual, and the question of art and boundaries - operating outside of the classic parameters. 

This project is part of A—Z’s ongoing research project around the display and dissemination of artwork and adds to the morphic and viral forms of the platform.

www.davidblandy.co.uk

David Blandy Interview at Four Quarters + A---ZMix

This panel discussion, chaired by Artquest and hosted by Shipment, brought together new and established artist-led spaces to consider the financial pressures of this precarious way of working, asking whether the changing economic context of London brings new ethical opportunities to sustainability. The panel consisted of Daniel Kelley of DKUK, Jennifer Lewandowski of French Riviera, Roland Fischer of SET.

Adaptation strategies of artist led spaces

Editor Ian Farr discusses the diverse roles of memory in art practice and theory from early modernism to the present, on the occasion of the Whitechapel Gallery’s latest Documents of Contemporary Art book. With video documentation of Stan Douglas’ Inconsolable Memories.

This event launched Memory, the latest title in the Documents of Contemporary Art series, published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press. With thanks to Stan Douglas and Victoria Miro Gallery.

Talk: Documents of Contemporary Art: Memory

Interrogating Spaces examines ideas around inclusivity and attainment in Higher Education. In each episode we speak with staff, students and practitioners to explore democratic and decolonised teaching practices.

Interrogating Spaces is brought to you by the Academic Enhancement Team within the Teaching and Learning Exchange at the University of the Arts London.


For more information please visit 
https://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning-exchange/academic-enhancement

Victoria Odeniyi reads 'Problematising Labels'

Interrogating Spaces / Academic Enhancement at UAL

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