Educators joined artist Jade de Montserrat for online workshops exploring self-image and identity.
For Cracks in the Curriculum 5 secondary school educators took part in two online workshops developed by multi-disciplinary artist Jade de Montserrat. The workshops explored key questions around self-image and identity in relation to young people aged 11 to 16.
Through the workshop the group considered themes from folklore, mythology and Afro-Futurism, and explored cultural teachings, education and discovery emerging through fantasy across the ages. Educators examined ideas about identity with particular reference to online spaces, thinking through the biases that are encoded into platforms and the ways we might use digital tools to challenge these.
Following the workshops, Serpentine Education will develop an educational resource in collaboration with Jade de Montserrat to be distributed to schools across the UK. This informative physical and digital guide will bring together content developed from the workshops, and aims to help educators create a space for conversations around self-image and identity among young people.
About Cracks in the Curriculum
Cracks in the Curriculum is a workshop series and publishing platform for teachers, which aims to bring artists and educators together to think about how to address pressing social issues in the classroom. The Cracks in the Curriculum series explores key questions and themes that run through Serpentine’s Education, Exhibition and Live programmes. The content for each resource emerges from workshops with artists, activists and educators.
Cracks in the Curriculum #5 considers themes around folklore, mythology and Afro-Futurism, and explores cultural teachings, education and discovery emerging through fantasy across the ages.
About Cracks in the Curriculum
Cracks in the Curriculum is a workshop series and publishing platform for teachers, which aims to bring artists and educators together to think about how to address pressing social issues in the classroom. The Cracks in the Curriculum series explores key questions and themes that run through Serpentine’s Education, Exhibition and Live programmes. The content for each resource emerges from workshops with artists, activists and educators.
Cracks in the Curriculum #5 considers themes around folklore, mythology and Afro-Futurism, and explores cultural teachings, education and discovery emerging through fantasy across the ages.
For more information about Cracks in the Curriculum visit:
https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/cracks-in-the-curriculum-sweet-rebellion/
If you have any queries, please get in touch with K Bailey Obazee (Project Coordination, Young People and Education, Serpentine): Khloeo@serpentinegalleries.org.
- Artist Bio
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Jade de Montserrat’s (b. 1981) research-led practice excavates shared histories alongside delving into her personal narrative. Montserrat works at the intersection of art and activism through painting, performance, film, sculpture, installation, print and text. She interrogates these mediums with the aim to expose gaps in our visual and linguistic habits.
Jade de Montserrat is the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship which supports her PhD (via MPhil) at IBAR, UCLan, (Race and Representation in Northern Britain in the context of the Black Atlantic: A Creative Practice Project) and the development of her work from her Black diasporic perspective in the North of England. She was also awarded one of two Jerwood Student Drawing Prizes in 2017 for No Need for Clothing, a documentary photograph of a drawing installation at Cooper Gallery DJCAD by Jacquetta Clark.
- Curated and produced by
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Serpentine Education Team
Alex Thorp
Jemma Egan
K Bailey Obazee
