UNIVERSITY (2015)

University
The Oceans Academy of Arts (OAOA), With works by Özlem Altın, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Ola Vasiljeva, Marianne Vierø

13 September – 13 December 2015
Vleeshal Zusterstraat


University marked the first institutional exhibition introducing OAOA. The project played with the idea of experimental pedagogical systems as a gentle misalignment with society’s established ideological institutions. Borrowing from the spirit of alternative schools and anti-universities, it imagined education as something that might be self-organised, improvised, and occasionally suspicious of its own authority. Courses were proposed not to stabilise knowledge but to gradually loosen it—encouraging digression, doubt and the unrestricted drift of thought, beyond the boundaries of official curricula.