Worry Room
The Worry Room is on the 2nd floor of the school. Everyone in the school go there regularly to worry so we don’t worry during class, studying, or working. Collective worrying is encouraged for time efficient hygiene management of worries.
Past Worries
Knot Curriculum for Break-Centred Learning (2024)
Porcelain sculpture on painted wooden podium, 700 x 50 x 12 cm (dimensions variable)
The sculpture is inspired by a line from poet Choi Seungja’s poetry collection “Hollow as an Empty Ship” (2016), the ceramic sculpture reads, ” Who will clean tomorrow’s windows”. Written in script, the ceramic knots are in states of being tied and untied. The knot curriculum locates learning in mundane acts like cleaning a window or untying a knot.
Participation in the Silent Apple, 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale, 2024
Image Credit:
Exhibition installation view, 2024, Photo by studio SUJIKSUPYUNG (Cheolki Hong), Courtesy of Changwon Cultural Foundation · The 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024
Master of Confident Ignorance (2024)
Vacuum cleaner, silk, curtain tassel, KEC T-shirt, mannequin
A mannequin wearing a silk robe is mounted on a robotic vacuum cleaner that moves around in the exhibition space. The hems of the silk robe drag across the floor, picking up dust and dirt, not really cleaning but moving them around in the room.
Participation in the Silent Apple, 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale, 2024
Image Credit:
Exhibition installation view, 2024, Photo by studio SUJIKSUPYUNG (Cheolki Hong), Courtesy of Changwon Cultural Foundation · The 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024
KEC Summer Session (Exhibition)
The installation of KEC classroom made in collaboration with artist Sooncheon No.
As a pre-event for Silent Apple, 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale, 2024, KEC Summer Session was held at AVP-Lab in Seoul.
Image Credit:
Exhibition installation view, 2024, Photo by studio SUJIKSUPYUNG (Cheolki Hong), Courtesy of Changwon Cultural Foundation · The 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024
Lost & Found Item: a student notebook (2024)
A KEC student Pasmida Budder’s notebook. Photocopied hand bound book in limited edition.
Image Credit:
Exhibition installation view, 2024, Photo by studio SUJIKSUPYUNG (Cheolki Hong), Courtesy of Changwon Cultural Foundation · The 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024
KEC Summer Session (Workshop)
The workshop took place in a KEC classroom where the audience participated as KEC students to get a taste of what it means to study at the school, and why KEC could be the perfect place of learning. Krabstadt coffee made from failed roasts were served during a performance lecture that showcased different student, teacher, and admin voices from the school in a textual tour of the school’s curriculum, campus, and facilities.
As a pre-event for Silent Apple, 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale, 2024, KEC Summer Session was held at AVP-Lab in Seoul
Image Credit:
Exhibition installation view, 2024, Photo by studio SUJIKSUPYUNG (Cheolki Hong), Courtesy of Changwon Cultural Foundation · The 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024
KEC Summer Session:
24hr Workshop Exhibition, Still Drawing Life
The workshop took place at Muhayu, an independent artist run space in Changwon.
Course description:
This course addresses what “a day” can be by focusing on where “a day” can happen. We will observe and think carefully about places, situations, and spatiality that happened in a day, and how that can be drawn and narrativized through pictorial storytelling.
Themes that are addressed include:
- Paulo Freire
- What kind of curriculum and educational structures can best facilitate goals for freedom and equality in art education?
- Seriality
- What is art education?
As a pre-event for Silent Apple, 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale, 2024, KEC Summer Session was held at Muhayu, Changwon.
Image Credit:
Exhibition installation view, 2024, Photo by studio SUJIKSUPYUNG (Cheolki Hong), Courtesy of Changwon Cultural Foundation · The 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024
KEC Open House
Installation and event at Oslo Kunstforening, 2023
At the Open House event one could learn about the school’s different teaching methods, peek inside the fictional classrooms, and watch the documentation of our special online teaching format. The audience was treated as KEC students to get a taste of what it means to study at our school, and why KEC could be the perfect place of learning. This included a lecture performance and a film screening, collating different student, teacher and admin voices from the school. Stuck Cafeteria provided Indonesian Coffee and German well-being tea. The evening was an excellent opportunity for students, parents, and pets to speak with our admissions representatives.
Image Credit: Lecture performance, 2023, Kunstforening Oslo, Photos: Malin Westermann
Online-On-Site Teaching
Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen, 7 December 2022
At the event in Kunsthal Charlottenborg the audience members are students of KEC. The lecture performance introduces the core aspects of the school. The video shows a playthrough of the game ‘Arrabbiata Wants a Raise’ together with Kolbrun Inga Söring and Jens Ljunggren. The audience was served Indonesian Coffee and German well-being tea from Stuck Cafeteria. This was followed by a concert of Henriette Sennenvaldt & band and an assisted Q&A with Ruben Ostan Vejrup.
Image Credit: Event documentation, Kunsthall Charlottenborg Copenhagen, 2022
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Online launch of PARSE journal, issue #14: Krabstadt Education Center.
KEC hosted an online event with keynote speaker Kevin Tavin, a conversation with Eva Weinmayr as well as a live performance by musician Henriette Sennevaldt and a coaching session with voice coach Lars-Ove Hedqvist.
Image Credits: Screenshot documentation launch PARSE Journal, 2022
Conflated Places
PARSE Journal for Artistic Research # 14, Spring 2022, guest-edited by KEC
The issue features Krabstadt Education Center. KEC seeks to exchange ideas on teaching methods and attitudes, learning outcomes and activities that are informed by performance, translation, digital and non-digital games. The contributions craft formats and platforms to address pertinent issues within the scope of art education on and off site. The contributors are artist-teachers/teacher-artists, writers, curators, and a game developer, who were invited to respond to key elements of KEC’s pedagogy and the Krabstadt universe.
Image Credits: Screenshots PARSE #14: Krabstadt Education Center. Conflated Places, 2022.
Conflated Places – Learning Pretzel
Installation, online publication at Jakarta Biennale 2021: ESOK
The installation at the National Museum of Awakening, formerly the medical school in Jakarta, comprised colored paper backgrounds, white metal frames, black recycled plastic mats, benches, and QR code labels: The multi-functional classroom was set up in the shape of a pretzel. The Biennale curators initiated an exchange between KEC and members of three educational programs in Indonesia: Gudskul (Jakarta), Jatiwangi Art Factory, and KUNCI’s School of Improper Education (Yogyakarta). An online publication, which was accessible via a QR code, features a conversation with these non-degree schools and reports on teaching and learning at KEC.
Image Credits: Exhibition installation view; online publication, Jakarta Biennale 2021: ESOK.