Renée Turner

Learning with Others (2021)

Learning, Projects & Research Posted by Renee

Co-taught with Irina Shapiro, Learning with Others is a seminar in the Master Education in Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute. With sessions planned amongst flora, fauna, and fungi, the seminar focuses on how educational practices might take into account the limits of the human while imagining perspectives from others, both human and non-human. Through the theoretical frameworks of Posthumanism and New Materialism, we will be asking: How might educational practices in art academies, primary schools, museums, and communities relate to multiscale, multispecies environments and contexts?

Excerpts from an interview with Robin van den Akker and Renée Turner

Learning, Publications, RASL Posted by Renee

As a part of the publication, RASL COMPOSITIONS: Collaboration, Commitment and Creativity in Education, Robin van den Akker and I discuss the potential of transdiciplinary education and approaches. Interviewed by Inge Janse, our conversation touches upon mapping the cultural moment, responding rather than reacting to the present and critically questioning the brief when it comes…

Learning with Others (2020)

Learning, Projects & Research Posted by Renee

Irina Shapiro and I will be teaching a seminar together at the Piet Zwart Institute, Master Education in Arts. (2020) Learning with Others We find ourselves in the middle of a pandemic, a climate crisis, a migration crisis, and a crisis related to cultural and ecological urgencies. In the whirlwind of these larger forces, this…

SLOW READING

Projects & Research, Reading & Shared Libraries, V2 Fellowship Posted by Renee

Against the pace of infinite urgencies surrounding AI and gender inequality, deceleration is embraced to read together slowly. Rather than streamlining for clarity, SLOW READERS persistently move through and engage with the quagmire.

Fellowship at V2: Lab for the Unstable Media

Projects & Research, Reading & Shared Libraries, V2 Fellowship Posted by Renee

As of 2021, I am a Fellow at V2: Lab for Unstable Media. In the V2_Fellowships artists, curators and theorists work together with V2_, pursuing mutual knowledge and practices. The V2_fellowship program aims at advancing the work of mid-career artists, curators and theorists. Fellows are invited to launch a project or deepen their research in association with V2_ Lab, based on their expertise and their specific views on relevant discourses in the field of art, technology and society.

Take care and see you soon on the other side of the quarantine,

Learning, Projects & Research Posted by Renee

Pedagogies: Committed, Critical, In the Plural, Feral, Resistant, De-colonial, Adaptive, Tactical, Practiced, Engaged, Transformative, Listening, Situated, A Work in Process, Ecological, Embodied, Embracing, Whispering, Observant, Hidden… Finding ourselves in quarantine, I made a digital scrapbook for my Critically Committed Pedagogy students reflecting on a January day we spent in my garden. In retrospect, it felt…

Researcher at RASL

Learning, Projects & Research, RASL Posted by Renee

RASL, Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab, is a consortium between Codarts, Arts & Culture Studies (EUR), Erasmus University College (EUR) and the Willem de Kooning Academy. Part of the work I do within RASL is to work with other partner institutes on an Erasmus + awarded body of research exploring transdisciplinary education combining the arts, humanities and sciences.

Panel Discussion: Framing and Reframing Archives

Learning, Narrative Archives Posted by Renee

Framing and Reframing Archives: Panel discussion moderated by Alice Twemlow with Renée Turner, Lauren Alexander, Dr. Andrea Stultiens

Some of the issues raised: What does the artist bring to the archive, what are the ethics of subjective interventions and how does epistolary work as a research methodology.

Weaving, Knots And Other Entanglements

Narrative Archives, Projects & Research, The Warp and Weft of Memory Posted by Renee

Histories are woven, knotted, and impossible to disentangle. This is especially true when working through the recent past with linked threads to the present. Moving through Gisèle’s clothing and photographic archive, Turner reflects on the epistemology of the closet, the pitfalls of taxonomical fervour, and the complexity of entangled histories.

Corona Chronicles: when life became a (gif)t

Corona Chronicles, Projects & Research Posted by Renee

loop during the Covid-19 lockdown. The project is a meditation on routines, and peculiarities of our previously known dailies interrupted. With animations done by Cesare Davolio, script by Renée Turner, and music by Eliot Davolio; in other words, a family endeavor, we reflect on a moment when life was no longer taken for granted, but instead became a (gif)t.