PTM_Pass the Mic!

The overall objective of PTM_Pass the Mic! is to improve access to higher education in communities exposed to structural inequalities and renewed forms of racism connected to migratory phenomena through the creation of a Southern European network that bridges regional schools/organizations for migrants and refugees, contemporary arts professionals, and universities.

Residencies were undertaken by four independent artists, leading to the formation of two artistic pairings.

For this workshop, the Pass the Mic! team will be talking about their experiences as part of the program, and tackling the following topics:

• The use of art as a tool for capturing personal truths as part of an interactive process.
• The transition to non-hierarchical, interactive forms of learning that exist outside traditional frameworks through the bolstering of a sense of agency.
• Exclusionary and inhibiting factors in the formation of a group.
• The dual role played by artists within a group, acting as a means of strengthening the dynamics of the educational process, and of deconstructing authority.
• The pandemic as both an impetus and an opportunity that highlights the need for collaborative work and reformulatory approaches for the resolution of problems.
• The mining of experiential narratives through interaction, and through the active creation of relationships based on an equal footing.
• The commonly-held call for freedom that arises from interactive educational practices, as construed within a pandemic setting.

This educational program is being run as part of the PTM_Pass the Mic! European network co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.