“When I joined the school in 2013, I was very much thinking in terms of the history of context; political, social, and cultural. My reflection was grounded in Cultural Studies essentially, and that’s how we’d arrived at the title “Situations post” because I had in mind Balandier’s “colonial situation” as well as Marie-Claude Smouts’ The Post-Colonial Situation. We discussed the “posts” that were being evoked, conjured, or debated at the time (post-capitalism, post-racial, and so on). I also owe it to Haraway to look toward the sky and the earth every so often, lest I forget that there are other scales and that we, too, are situated amongst other species, living or else.”
Ants Walk Two Ways, Sophie Orlando, p.101
A collective publication based on “Situation Post”, a research project run by Katrin Stroebel and Sophie Orlando for almost 10 years at the Villa Arson, Nice. A pedagogical workshop navigating collective practices, contextual thinking, feminist, queer and postcolonial approaches in art and design.
The publication follows this non linear approach and wanders between interviews, contributions, essays and visual essays. Fluo ants are travelling up and down the publication, they can be seen as a metaphore for supporting the collective, for teaching, studying and working together.
