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KAI SYNG TAN PhD FRSA SFHEA www.kaisyngtan.com/artful /tentacularpedagogy Views in this keynote are my own
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#pac75: 5th Pan African Congress 75th Anniversary Celebrations
4-day festival with 11 partner institutions for Black History Month 2020 with Prof of Architecture Ola Uduku reaching 18.2m worldwide
ISLANDHOPPING 2002-2005 Japan
Films, live art and installations co-created with Japanese artists on colonialism
RUN! RUN! RUN! BIENNALE #r3fest
running as arts and humanities discourse 2014-
2014: London Founded with geographer Prof Alan Latham
2016: Cardiff, Leeds London
2018: Paris
ASEAN PARA GAMES Opening and Closing ceremonies With disabled collaborators for 6000 live audiences Singapore 2015
#MagicCarpet
Art-science commission with Prof of Psychiatry Philip Asherson 2017-2019
Open mic event wth Jaye Braithwaite with BSL interpreter Jacqui Beckford 2018
produc tive antago nisms -- Latha m
and Tan 2018
being ill-disci plined -- Tan a nd Ashe rs on 2018
pprroodduc ucttiv antago ivee nisms -- Latha m
and Tan 2018
being ill-disci plined produc tive antago nisms
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change
leadership:
catalysing change through artful agitation
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Putting on
tinted glasses La Jatee Chris Marker 1962
Putting on
tinted glasses La Jatee Chris Marker 1962
r u o y g n i t a e Cr
rough guide
Tan 2021
Tan 2021 https://vimeo.com/595781479
Leaping with faith
Grasping the problems
Asking: ) Am I (part of ? the problem
Creativity y t i l a n i g i r O Autonomy Initiative y t i l i b i s n o p Res
World Economic Fo rum
et al since at least 20 16
Banksy
2010 Sa n Fr
ancisco
Grabbing
s opportunitie Banksy
2010 Sa n Fr
ancisco
Budd ha TV
Grabbing
Nam
June Paik
s opportunitie 1974
Knocking mocking status quo
Knocking mocking status quo
risk-tak i ng, di v erge creative giftedn nt thinking an ess (Les d ch 2018 )
problem -solving conceptsand synthesising (LaFranc e 1997)
2016, Keamy st ro (F ip h rs e d a le ' e ‘effectiv Cleary 2020). 2016; Aylesworth &
Leading
neurodivergently
Mark Zuckerberg and autism?
Dyslexia & Richard Branson
Leading
neurodivergently
Mark Zuckerberg and autism?
Dyslexia & Richard Branson
: Neurodiversityy’, ortunit ‘next talent oprpfostering ‘method fo ovation’ inn ge’ ta n a v d a e v ti ti e ‘comp reap to ’ e s a c s s e in s 'strong bu omes’ tc u o l ia c n a n fi r ‘bette
mpany o C & y e s in K c M (Sonne 2014; Business rd a rv a H , 6 1 0 2 2015; WEF 018; Nesta 2 n o rs e tt a P ; 7 1 Review 20 ; Nesta 2020) 9 1 0 2 a ñ u rd O ; 2019
Leading
neurodivergently
Art writers should expec t, or want, to be cited and discussed by schola rs in the relevant disc Mark Zuckerberg and autism?iplines, because intere st on the part of the wider university is a con dition for being taken to have a position — and fin ally, a discipline — that speaks to existing conce rns. Dyslexia & Richard Branson – The Importance of Talk ing to Everyone in the Unive rsity, James Elkins 2009
Leading
artfully
Art writers should expec t, or want, to be cited and discussed by schola rs in the relevant disc Mark Zuckerberg and autism?iplines, because intere st on the part of the wider university is a con dition for being taken to have a position — and fin ally, a discipline — that speaks to existing conce rns. Dyslexia & Richard Branson – The Importance of Talk ing to Everyone in the Unive rsity, James Elkins 2009
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UK HE global majority students Undergraduate enrolment:
24.81%
Postgraduate Research (PGR) enrolment :
18.07%
PGR success:
16.13%
(UKCGE 2019, Leading Routes 2019, UKRI 2020)
UK HE global PGR Studentships majority students from UK Research Innovation (UKRI) Total awarded:
19,868
For Black or Black Mixed students: 1.2%
(UKCGE 2019, Leading Routes 2019, UKRI 2020)
UK HE global majority students who have experienced racial harassment:
24%
physical attack:
20%
(Equality and Human Rights Commission 2019)
UK HE global staff inmajority art and design students
White:
6765
Non-White:
470
(AdvanceHE 2019)
UK HE global femalemajority professors students
White:
23.9%
Non-White: 2.1% (Bhopal 2020)
Tan Chio Lin
Tentacular forerunner
Institutions + people declaring ‘solidarity’ declaring ‘solidarity’ and displayed and displaying black black squares Summer 2020
100%
Institutions + people that claimed anti-racist allyship and anti-colonisation changes etc
100%
Institutions + people that didn’t action what they promised excel in blah blah blah
100%
*
*rounded up
Institutions + people and the time taken to revert to business as usual
6 months (Bhopal 2020)
Is racism
that bad? We’re so liberal 100%
*
*rounded down
Is racism
that bad? We’re so liberal * 100% *That’s the problem
r u o g * packin l a v i r h l t a v i v r su backpacked by Ginny Russell *coin
r u o g * packin l a v i r h l t a v i v r su backpacked by Ginny Russell *coin
Lao Zi
Poet, philosopher, vagrant, antiintellectual, anarchist
William Morris designer, poet, artist, novelist, translator, socialist activist
Leonardo Da Vinci
Artist, engineer, scientist, architect, dyslexic ADHD-er
Lao Zi
Poet, philosopher, vagrant, antiintellectual, anarchist
William Morris designer, poet, artist, novelist, translator, socialist activist
s d r bea
Leonardo Da Vinci
Artist, engineer, scientist, architect, dyslexic ADHD-er
m o c not
y r o s l u p
Ada Lovelace
Mathematician, computer programmer, poet
I use my strength in the service of my vision. If I didn’t define myself I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive
Audre Lorde
‘black, lesbian, moth er, warrior, poet’, and English Pro fessor
The missio n of the st udy of art and design: Develop c og abilities re nitive lated to th e aesthetic, ethical an d social con texts of hu ma n experienc e that contribute to society, the economy and the environme nt, both in the present an d for the future. – Quality A ssurance A gency for Higher Education 2019
The missio n of the st udy of art and design: Develop c og abilities re nitive lated to th e aesthetic, ethical an d social con texts of hu ma n experienc e that contribute to society, the economy and the environme nt, both in the present an d for the future. – Quality A ssurance A gency for Higher Education 2019
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst
Painter trained at RCA and Manchester School of Art and Suffragette leader
The missio n of the st udy of art and design: Develop c og abilities re nitive lated to th e aesthetic, ethical an d social con texts of hu ma n experienc e that contribute to society, the economy and the environme nt, both in the present an d for the future. – Quality A ssurance A gency for Higher Education 2019
Maria Kolesnikova
Flautist with double major in music, Belarus opposition leader
Greta Thunberg
Joshua Wong
Hong Kong Truant, rickpro-democracy roller, leader, climate dyslexic activist with university Aspergers dropout
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Werner Herzo g’s roguefilmscho ol.com/
Rule 4. We will anything techn not teach ica to film-making.l related purpose, pleas For this e en your local film roll at school Rule 8. Practica l subjec include the art ts of lockpicking. Tra foot. […] The crveling on eatio your own shoo n of ting permits. The ne utralization of bureaucracy . Gue tactics. Self reli rrilla ance.
Rogue art schools
Susan Orfr
Professor o e eative Practic
Cr Pedagogy on getting lost
The art school needs to retain its position as a liminal and ambiguous space that helps students to play and to find their own creative solutions. […] Students need to experience risk and failur in order to develop their creative practice. In other words: they need to feel lost ... -- Highways, Byways and Leaving a Trail (Orr 2020)
Touretteshero Jess Thom
Theatre maker, comedian, change-maker. Transformed Battersea Arts Centre into the world’s first 'relaxed’ venue
Perry Chen Founder of public benefit corporation Kickstarter, artist (shown here with his installation The New Economy 2001)
Jack Tan
Law, governance and policy as art
Rose Godkin
National Health Service burns unit nurse for 50+ years, volunteer for Good Samaritan and Covid vaccination centres Handbook of creative
Lockg n i k c Pi
mobile methods
Communities Compassion y t i s o i r n o i Cu t a r o Collab Susan Oersrfor
at n i d r o o c r u o F ce n e l l e c x e g n i teach 2021
Communities
Running Artfully Network (RAN)
UK A d ADHDult N et w ork
Race Equality Activity Planning (REAP)
Compassion y t i s o i r n o i Cu t a r o Collab British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin Editorial Board
Neurodiversity In/& Creative Research Network
https://bit.ly/neurodiversitycreativeresearch
Leadership: curation, artful agitation, neurodivergent ‘Leadership’: from lædan (14th century): to guide, travel. ‘Curate’: from curare: to guide
How to Thrive in 2050 Tan 2021
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All schools should be s l o o h c s t r a
ith m S ta r e b o R d n a b o B –
Artists are key workers – Bob and Rob
erta Smith
@attenboroughac December 17-18 Attenborough Arts Centre Instagram
SPEED
DATING
‘Writing should sweat’ (Abdelkader Benali 2021)
Sweating rcise Memory Jogging Exe Art Museum 2015 ry ra o p m te n o C w sa War
‘Writing should sweat’ (Abdelkader Benali 2021)
e h t g n i Sav e t a d ) d (spee rcise Memory Jogging Exe Art Museum 2015 ry ra o p m te n o C w sa War
R A L U C A T N E T Y A G O G A D E ? P 0 5 0 2 D A E L TO #thriving2050 @ELIAartschools @kaisyngtan
KAI SYNG TAN PhD FRSA SFHEA www.kaisyngtan.com/artful /tentacularpedagogy Views in this keynote are my own