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Bojan Djordjev

Bojan Djordjev was born in 1977 in Belgrade. Graduated in theatre directing from the Faculty of Drama Arts (FDU) and holds a master degree in theory of arts and media from the University of Arts in Belgrade where he is also a PhD candidate. Works as a director, performer and cultural worker in Belgrade. Co-founder of TkH - Teorija koja Hoda (Walking Theory) platform, and one of the editors of TkH Journal for Performing Arts theory.

Bojan Djordjev and Marta Popivoda will present independent educational projects conducted as research s-o-s project /selfmanaged educational system in arts and its practical extensions Knowledge Smuggling! and Deschooling Classroom by TkH (Walking Theory) platform for performing arts theory and practice. All projects explore the procedures of non-institutional collective self-education as an alternative to the overwhelming commoditization of knowledge by the institutions of higher education. s-o-s project (2006-07) was conceived as an open system of theoretical-research, public lessons and textual production that implemented the practices of post-pedagogy in the fields of art theory, cultural activism, and educational methods. Its goal was to shape critical alternatives to the official educational institutions in the direction of self-education as a collective practice. Key concepts were: artistic education, knowledge production, self-education, (workers) self-management, open source procedures in education, and commoditization of knowledge. Knowledge smuggling! (2008?) is a long term self-educational project in the field of performing arts, critical theory, digital technology and free culture. Through it we attempt to open a temporary crack in the local knowledge market and intervene in the existing system of production and exchange of knowledge, smuggling it from official educational institutions into the sphere of individual needs and as-free-as-possible cultural spaces. Deschooling classroom (2009-11) promotes open, collaborative and cross-disciplinary formats of cultural production through critical re?ection on the educational system in the region of SEE. The project addresses regional contemporary independent cultural scenes by researching and offering alternatives to the existing hierarchical models of art and culture education.

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