37. The Wandering School Part II: Revolution or Bust!
Members and friends of the Dirty Art Department left Amsterdam by plane to Bari, and travelled – in descending order of technology – by 42boat from Bari to Patras, by public transport from Patras to Delphi. On arriving in Delphi, they met the Oracle, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, who presented his Ode to Capitalism and explained the revolution in his terms. Continuing on foot from Delphi to Athens, over mountains and through valleys, there was time for rumination and chances to realise new links between themselves and those they met along the way. Once in Athens, they sought out the light through a series of planned and unplanned happenings and actions. Caught between the impossible fantasy of the revolution and the real task of self-organising and trying to save a refugee centre from collapse, those involved decided both individually and collectively how to proceed and what action to take. The film The Wandering School Part II: Revolution or Bust! are some residues from this experience made as a collectively edited and produced film.
Credits: The Dirty Art Department, Florence Parot, Saâdane Afif, Catherine Somzé, Daniel Dewar, Jerszy Seymour, Tamara van der Laarse, Aurélien Lepetit, Anna Reutinger, Jean-François Peschot, Pierre Bujeau, Sara Daniel, Walter Götsch, Jason Harvey, Selma Köran, Jeroen Kortekaas, Leslie Lawrence, David Monberg, Rachele Monti, Dani Andres Ordonez Munoz, Léo Ravy, Tomasz Skibicki, Sun Chang, Andrea Lopez Bernal, Lotte Hardeman, Tom Kemp, Quentin Dupuy, Nagaré Willemsen, Giovanni Bozzoli Parasacchi, Andrès Garcia Vidal, Anna Läderach, Nicola Baratto, Yiannis Mouravas, Jasmine Alakari, Erasmus Scherjon, Lovis Caputo, Alessandro Veneruso, Leonardo Ruvolo, Francesca Maciocia, Ana Shametaj, Luca Chiaudano, Emanuele Braga, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, Macao, Young Boys Writing Group, Lost Dad Radio, Daddy Issues, and Gucci Nuggets
The Dirty Art Department is a radical education platform in art and design at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam founded in 2011 as a reaction to the social and political situation and to save the subject of both physical and mental worldbuilding from the jaws of a rabid neoliberal capitalism. From its outset, it could see itself as a sort of temporary autonomous zone, or even better, a permanent, permeable, and transformable autonomous zone. Its landing at, or even squatting of, the Sandberg Instituut - Rietveld Academy with its modernist roots, could be seen as a conscious decision to overlay the idea of wandering (from dérive to the Vandals) and rationalist platforms, and its reactive, situation-based programless core, as a post-pedagogic pedagogy. For the Dirty Art Department, it is fundamental that the school is a place that should not be controlled, that should allow all ideas to be expressed, discussed, and developed, and that has the right to consider the creation of a new world in serious terms.
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