New Alphabet School

New Alphabet School 

The New Alphabet School is a collaborative self-organised school for practice-based research. Over the course of three-and-a-half years, it will function as a colloquium for practice-based, situated approaches in cultural studies, art and activism. 

Assuming that knowledge is not universal, but always located, or bound to a specific context, one’s own position or place, the school aims to explore critical and affirmative forms of knowledge production in order to create solidarity between different approaches in theory and practice.

Each edition of the school is dedicated to a knowledge practice. Departing from these activities, is it possible to imagine multifarious ways of speaking, knowledge production and learning practices beyond one universal matrix? Can common reference points and collective action be enabled without a potentially hegemonic centre? How can knowledge be both locally situated and at the same time produce a new kind of universality?