colourschool
Colour Exchanges: Interview with Kajsa Dahlberg
Johan Lundh interviews Kajsa Dahlberg this session.
colourschool is a school within a school dedicated to the speculative research and exploration of five colours: black, white, brown, yellow, and red.
Providing a free and open space for critical investigations of colour, identity, artmaking, and knowledge production, colourschool attempts to develop a collaborative colour consciousness through a variety of events including reading groups, film screenings, listening labs, interviews, roundtable discussions, brown bag lunches, performances, and installations among other activities.
Recent & Upcoming Events
All events are free and open to the public. Click event title for more information. browse all events
- 2008-03-11
- Colour Exchanges: Interview with Germaine Koh
- 2008-03-12
- Open Hours
- 2008-03-17
- Filling in a White Box
- 2008-03-18
- D & G Reading Group or How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Colours?
- 2008-03-19
- Open Hours
- 2008-03-25
- Sipping "Tequilera" en Fuego: An Evening of Astrid Hadad
- 2008-03-26
- Open Hours
- 2008-03-31
- Filling in a White Box
- 2008-04-02
- Open Hours
- 2008-04-07
- Colour Exchanges: Interview with Kajsa Dahlberg
- 2008-04-09
- Open Hours
- 2008-04-15
- D&G Reading Group Or How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Colours?
- 2008-04-16
- Open Hours
- 2008-04-21
- White Reading Group
- 2008-04-22
- Filling in a White Box Talk
- 2008-04-23
- Open Hours
- 2008-04-29
- colourschool Study Group
User Posts & News
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- 01. From colour-blindness to change-blindness... link Posted by Ian Wojtowicz, April 16th, 2008.
- 02. Color Chart at the MoMA link Posted by Jeff Khonsary, March 18th, 2008.
- 03. Jeongmee Yoon’s Pink and Blue Project. link Posted by Jeff Khonsary, March 12th, 2008.
- 04. Remixed London police anti-photography poster: “Millions of people take photos every day. Some of them are brown. Please do not shoot them.” link Posted by Alan McConchie, March 10th, 2008.
- 05. ColorFlip link Posted by Jeff Khonsary, March 9th, 2008.
- 06. Stuff white people like. link Posted by Ian Wojtowicz, March 9th, 2008.
- 07. Colour-blind artist learns to paint by hearing. link Posted by Jeff Khonsary, February 28th, 2008.
- 08. Bjork, colour, + independence link Posted by Karla Mummery, February 25th, 2008.
- 09. sound of color... link Posted by Ian Wojtowicz, February 25th, 2008.
- 10. Canadian is the new black. link Posted by Jessica Glesby, February 24th, 2008.
From the Archives
- Colour Exchanges: Interview with Kajsa Dahlberg
Johan Lundh interviews Kajsa Dahlberg this session.
102/events/colour-exchanges-interview-with-kajsa-dahlberg - Red Shoes Screening
“A glorious Technicolor epic that influenced generations of filmmakers, artists, and aspiring ballerinas, The Red Shoes intricately weaves backstage life with the thrill of performance.”—Criterion Collection
colourschool presents the second in a series of screenings dedicated to the work of British filmmaker Michael Powell and Emmerich Pressburger, who strategically employed colour as a vehicle for symbolism and expressionism. For this screening, the role of the colour red is discussed in relation to the film.
See Ian Christie’s review of the film.
61/events/red-shoes-screening - D&G Reading Group Or How Do You Make Yourself a Body without Colours?
colourschool’s D&G Reading Group regularly meets to read and discuss texts from One Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Gilles Deleuze’s and Felix Guattari’s landmark work, which continues to challenge the terms of debate in various disciplines including philosophy, psychology, culture, politics, economics, and art among other fields.
During D&G meetings participants receive excerpts to read and discuss as a group. In addition, all are welcome and encouraged to bring sections to share.
59/events/dg-reading-group-or-how-do-you-make-yourself-a-body-without-colo - Colour Exchanges: Interview with Koki Tanaka
Johan Lundh interviews Koki Tanaka for the first session.
62/events/colour-exchanges-interview-with-koki-tanaka - Colour Exchanges: Interview with Instant Coffee
Johan Lundh interviews members of the artist collective Instant Coffee during this session.
77/events/colour-exchanges-interview-with-instant-coffee - Brown Bag Lunch with Brendan Fernandes
colourschool’s Brown Bag events comprise a series of lunch time discussions focused on a given subject or range of subjects. Participants may bring their lunch or take a brown bag provided by colourschool.
For this session, New York and Toronto-based artist Brendan Fernandes speaks about his recent work, which deals with notions of identity through post colonial discourse.
The lunch will begin at 12:30 and end at around 2 pm.
85/events/brown-bag-lunch- - Colour Exchanges: Interview with Nathalie Melikian
Johan Lundh interviews Vancouver and Malmo-based artist Nathalie Melikian for this session.
79/events/colour-exchanges-interview-with-nathalie-melikian - Colourschool Listening Lab: Black
colourschool listening labs are a series of active research and listening sessions devoted to aural explorations of colour. Each session focuses on a particular hue from the colourschool palette and adds music as well as sound works to a larger, more comprehensive archive. Soundtracks from each session will be made available by podcast or in house.
Participants are invited to bring relevant song titles and or files to each session or may, alternately, make recommendations through the posts section of the colourschool website.
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