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This Work isn’t For Us Part 2

25 June, 2020

– 25 June, 2020

6pm

Zoom

This Work isn’t For Us is an ongoing study, initiated by Jemma Desai. Partly a critical appraisal of historic ‘diversity’ initiatives, partly an alternative policy document, the study is also an embodied ethnography, assembling testimonies from arts workers navigating institutionally initiated gestures at ‘inclusion’.
This series of encounters bring together some of the artists and practices that continue to shape the work.
The second session is with Aditi Jaganathan, an educator and activist who works to instigate informal, generative and healing learning spaces. Reflecting on their experiences of (un)learning together, Jemma and Aditi will discuss the revolutionary potential of pedagogy as a tool to connect people to themselves and one another, as well as to ideas and theory.
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The full discussion is available to watch here

Aditi Jaganathan’s work explores the emergent cultures which arise from Black and brown diasporic connectivities in city spaces. With a particular interest in creativity as decolonial praxis, she situates the imagination as a radical site of refusal and resistance. Having worked with different racial justice grassroots organisations she is focused on the transformation of the world through education. Radical pedagogies and spaces of (un)learning are a fundamental part of Aditi’s work as an educator. She currently teaches courses on race, gender and representation at Goldsmiths, as well as an independent course on sonics of revolution. Aditi holds an LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice at the SOAS, and is currently a PhD candidate at Brunel, University of London.

Jemma Desai is a born and bred Londoner who is reconsidering her work biography after having spent the last year looking straight into the void of institutional life. She is currently a researcher and writer, sometimes talks about her feelings in public, and used to have a film programming practice that she hopes to re-imagine in a better future.