The School of Lost Knowledge (2020-2023)

Organizmo, centre for regenerative strategies and education in Colombia, has invited Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot to co-create and develop a ‘School of Lost Knowledge’ in one of their main community projects in Coquí, on the Pacific coast of Colombia, transforming the already exciting Museo de Saberes Locales de Coquí (Community Museum of Traditional Knowledge), into a school. Together they revitalize local knowledge and reconnect to working with Nature Intelligences. Together they develop alternative regenerative educational and artistic systems that feeds back into the community equally as into Gradinger/Schubot’s artistic processes. For both, it is of fundamental importance to put the way of imparting knowledge at the service of local, communal needs instead of transforming it through generalized knowledge. That implies artistic practices that install regenerative structures, ritual-performances and above all start new paradigms of learning by introducing a form of education and co-creation between people and Nature. 
The later working period was joined by collaborator Shelley Etkin. 

Supported by: Fundación Organizmo/Ana Gutierrez, Fundación Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA), Museo de Saberes Locales de Coquí (Community museum of traditional knowledge), Goethe-Institute Colombia
Co-production: the Goethe-Institut (International Coproduction Fund), HAU/Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Gradinger/Schubot

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