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Educating for autonomy

Video tape, 12’, HD, 16:9, Geneva, 2015

Cinéma Dynamo, Centre d’art Contemporain, Genève, 2018

Through the links of a fence
 in a zoo, eyes and ears are riveted on a discussion between two adolescent girls: education, why? and for whom? The debate 
is based on Theodor Adorno’s
 and Hellmut Backer’s theories in “Education for Maturity and Responsibility” 1969, and presents 
a critique of the anticonformist claims made for the return
 to a state of innocence.
 For Adorno and Becker, education must above all enable the formation of true consciousness as support for the goals of democracy.

The young age of the actors, 
the enclosure of animals place
the German theorists’ concepts 
in a new light.
How far can the compromise between adaptation and resistance go in a world where individual freedoms are under increasing threat?

Will the solitary ibex, lying on
the roof of his barn, find an answer to the problem of adaptation 
in the two girls’ discussion?

Text Erzsi Kukorelly


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