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[ texts ]THE UNPREDICTABLE PAST OF THE FUTURE IN KUNSTHAL GHENT
April, 17 2025
On this evening, we welcome Ivana Momčilović, dramaturg and editor of the book, coordinator of the international platform for aesthetic education for all - PhD in One Night, in conversation with Alexandra van Laeken, researcher in philosophy at the University of Ghent and Antwerp.
After the conversation about the book, in which we invite the audience to join with their input, we will watch excerpts from the film ‘Poems From Which We Learned: Collective Fragments’ on Self-Learning About the Sensible and Politics’ — a film made by the collective PhD in One Night. Other guests of the evening and collaborators of PhD In One Night collective are violinist and music researcher dejana sekulić, who will join us with musical interventions on her violin during the movie, and art critic Elisabetta Cuccaro, who will present us with the cartography she created, relating to the book. Also among the guests and collaborators of PhD In One Night who will contribute in debate will be Erdem Gunduz, Standing Man, choreographer, dancer, electro-technician and activist and Dries Josten, researcher in philosophy at Ghent University.
Together with the audience we will look for an answer to the question “What is a new way of acquiring knowledge outside of a existing school format?”
As the book, including the very actual chapter “Student strikes, reality of the fiction?” is present in the book club of the blockaded Belgrade University in Serbia, we will summarise the talk with a discussion about the important and unique protest that has been happening in Serbia for the last 4 months, in which 62 out of 80 faculties in Serbia are currently participating. Students’ plenums in Serbia are applying direct democracy, distance from political parties, self-education, transforming faculties into places of common life and studies where they live, sleep, learn and spend a time together, becoming witness of collective intelligence, anti-leadership and the collective political imagination so needed in our world.
Finally, the curatorial project "Oasis", the Biennale of Youth of Contemporary Arts in Serbia (September 2025) will be presented, whose representative Tane Laketić will be with us, and whose part of the program will be dedicated to students in the blockade.