Frozen Education
(2018)

An art exhibition on Education
Kaskadenkondensator Gallery
Basel, Switzerland

Artists: Dimitra Charamandas, Panos Chasapis, Maria Glyka, Aspasia Krystalla, Dimitris Rentoumis, Kathrin Siegrist, Tassos Tataroglou, Yota Tsotra, Vassilis Vlastaras, Adonis Volanakis and the Xeniseum Museum of Education (MoE-X) of the University of Creta with Prof. Anthony Hourdakis and Dr. Kostas Christidis.

The term FROZEN EDUCATION was used by the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti to characterize the obsolete way of our education. Education includes a variety of aspects of our society, ranging from family, schools to our expanded social networks. Education undoubtedly shapes the future of our world and can provide basic answers to issues that affect our current social, political and psychological condi-tions. Focusing on Greece as a case study, the FROZEN EDUCATION exhibition attempts to transform the Kaskadenkondensator into a working laboratory for exploring pedagogy and cultivating viewpoints and ideas.
The participating artists, thinkers, writers, historians and musicians reflect on the past and reveal the present of the Greek educational system throughout the recent decades, based on their own personal experiences and research. How has education been utilized in order to form the necessary conditions for thought and social reference? How does education influence and/or is being influenced by religion and politics? Although the focus of these concerns is Greece, correlations can be found with other education systems around the world.
Furthermore, the participants speculate the future of education as a process of shaping humanity and highlight the effect of art as a functional tool and platform for pioneering pedagogy. On this basis, relevant workshops and inter-active meetings were developed in collaboration with students of the Institut Kunst and Institut Lehrberufe für Gestaltung und Kunst of the Academy of Art and Design in Basel.

Organised by Yota Tsotra and Dr. Kuckuckslabrador