Gale, Cathy (2020) Disco Dissent Collective : a performative nexus of the political, subcultural and creative. In: Campbell, Lee, (ed.) Leap into action companion : critical performative pedagogies in art & design education. New York, U.S. : Peter Lang Publishing. pp. 33-44. ISBN 9781433166440
Abstract
The Disco Dissent Collective (DDC) is an elective situated on the edges (conceptually, physically, pedagogically) of a graphic design degree programme. Visual culture and music are synthesized here in an expanded design practice: a set of processes, exchanges, pro-actively engaging new audiences and modes of production. Members (15-20) of the DDC co-construct its principles and content, shifting to accommodate the changing skills and interests of each group’s formulation. In a convivial approach the studio becomes a nightclub (and vice versa): a concept and attitude, rather than a classroom for social conformity, a liminal space in which more performative pedagogies can be enacted. In this re-drawn territory, students are framed as actors of a praxis that permits autonomous creativity but also leads to subversive modes of enterprise. The DDC is a performative nexus of the political, subcultural and creative: a pedagogic model through which more disobedient modes of design can be realised
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