Worlding Public Cultures is a critical art theory and practice based approach to social innovation.
We facilitate critical discussions and the exchange of information about key exhibitions, pedagogic activities, and activist campaigns centred on decolonising museums, the impact of globalisation on art, and decolonial curation in the field of transnational art.
The Worlding Public Cultures team of Heidelberg University invites scholars and early career researchers from the fields of Art History, Transcultural Studies, Anthropology to deliver panel papers and presentations at the academyLessons Learned? Transcultural Positions in Curating and Pedagogies.
Virtual workshop organized by Birgit Hopfener and Karin Zitzewitz at Carleton University, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts, and Culture, and supported by the Ruth and Mark Phillips Professorship in Cultural Mediations (ICSLAC, Carleton University).
Worlding Public Cultures presents two specially commissioned audio pieces as part of its London Gathering consent not to be a single being: Worlding through the Caribbean.
From 1st-3rd December 2021 the symposium consent not to be a single being: Worlding through the Caribbean is accompanied by an online programme of artists’ audio and film works
From 7-9th October 2021, Framer Framed hosted the Amsterdam Assembly: Letting go of Having to Speak All the Time, a gathering and thinking space for activists, artists, scholars, and other cultural practitioners to discuss various topics around decolonisation, pedagogy, racism, and the politics of archiving.
Welcome to Traces, a blog recording, contending with, and reflecting upon the Worlding Public Cultures (WPC) project. Organized by an editorial team of early career scholars working collaboratively and transnationally, Traces seeks to complement and support the central objectives of WPC.
