Son[i]a #269 Mônica Hoff
- 05:35 Models vs contexts
- 07:11 Cracks: the space where things happen. Consensus and dissent.
- 09:13 Epistemological anarchy
- 09:30 Mediation is not representation
- 13:18 Human scale
- 17:16 Things that take a lifetime
- 23:13 Everything is inside the institution
- 23:55 The biennial crisis
- 26:47 The educational turn: a different model
Brazilian artist and researcher Mônica Hoff operates on the edges that connect and separate the inside and outside of artistic practice, theory, and education. In her own words, she explores "the way artistic methodology becomes pedagogy." And from this slippery Bermuda Triangle she warily saw the so-called educational turn start to be conceived as a model from the moment Kristina Lee Podesva put it down in black and white in her article "A Pedagogical Turn: Brief Notes on Education as Art", published in 2007.
In all her work, from her role as coordinator of the educational programme at the Mercosur Biennial in Porto Alegre to projects such as the Extraordinary School of Desterro and Surf School, as well as others too small to mention on a CV, Mônica Hoff approaches and practices education as process. She advocates institutional imagination and shifting the place from which things are done, because "in practice, theory is different."
We talk to Mônica Hoff about epistemological Dadaism and education in public, about institutions that learn, dissent as a strategy to generate movement and thought, scales, micropoltics, and the cracks in which everything happens, and about slowing down, or even stopping.