Rooted in indigenous African invention, Yaa works to reimagine cultural infrastructure and expand the means of producing art histories.
The emancipatory potential of play is central to her practice, as is dreamwork. Yaa Addae, also known as yaa the plant, is a Ghanaian-British multidisciplinary strategist. Through memes, essays, and dream tanks, they imagine a way out of inherited colonial cultural infrastructures. Started in June 2020 during the global reckoning with racist structures, in this case, the art world, their pedagogy is one of dreamwork. In particular, Play Radical celebrates those types of play which are often unseen, ignored and offer ways of communicating or relating that often aren’t valued by wider society.ĭecolonize The Art World is an anti-colonial art history incubator tended by Ghanaian-British writer, curator, and community educator Yaa Addae, and a research coordinator, Sabrina Citra. Max is currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland and runs Play Radical, a platform that aims to create space to celebrate and recognise the infinite ways we play, communicate and relate to each other as both children and adults. Max Alexander of Play Radical is a playworker, artist and consultant who specialises in working with children and young people who are disabled and/or have additional support needs working across school, playground and community settings. Rumpus Room is focused on the principles of community, autonomy, experimentation, risk and the desire to work long-term to develop positive and sustained relationships that cultivate meaningful social action and mutual exchange in the places we live, work and learn. Rumpus Room considers alternative ways of learning facilitating shared spaces for art and social action between artists, children, families and young people.
Rumpus Room is an artist-led initiative dedicated to collaborative arts practice rooted in mutual exchange with children and young people in order to challenge how we play, learn and make art. The Playing for the Future project was produced with Rumpus Room artists Nadia Rossi and Rachel Walker and playworker Usma Ashraf. Rumpus Room works in collaboration with artists and playworkers, children, young people and families who are a part of the Rumpus Room studio, based in Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland.
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Art Block is the South London Gallery’s free space on Sceaux Gardens Estate for local children and families to make things, be creative, and play.
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