ECHO | Knowing in Solidarity: Education, Language Activism and Unlikely Archives

What ideologies are hidden in between the lines of education systems? Who draws up these lines of (alphabetic) literacy? And what practices of (re)assembling, translating, transcribing, annotating, and supplementing can subvert these normative lines of inquiry?

The first ECHO of the year takes place in the context of the exhibition States of Violence, which documents and reflects upon the ways in which political, religious and cultural violence is mediated, researched, censored or communicated. During ECHO, we will turn to the field of literacy and engage with the ways in which the field is instrumentalized for practices of state formation and the production of universal knowledge. The three speakers - designer and artist Leroy Berger, educator and curator Clare Butcher, artist, typographer and researcher Tabea Nixdorff - will guide you along hidden curricula, indigenous languages and unlikely archival documents to share how they engage critically with practices of literacy and work actively against the violence of the marginalization of knowledges. This talk is in English