SOTD | Rosie Ridgway
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Alongside fellow artists, I created an unaccredited M.A. course called School of The Damned, which ran as a critical, self- governing M.A. This  course was created to in protest to the high tuition fees of the current education system. School of the Damned is in its eighth year.

 

2014 MANIFESTO:

The School Of The Damned is an MA course run by its students and overseen by a board of academic advisors. It is intended to provide artists who cannot afford to study on an accredited program with a critical discourse and rigorous re-assessment of their art practices. The course also aims to establish a new network of artists, academics and institutions, which would not only advocate free education, but demand a universal acknowledgment of education as a fundamental right. Further to this aim, by its existence the course acts as a form of protest against an plutocratic state, which preserves aristocracies, promotes rampant avarice and marginalises the poor, dismantling their institutions and restricting their access to learning. By deeming itself a Masters Degree in Art, the course demands of itself a constant assessment of its proposed equivalence to established/accredited courses, yet ultimately understands that it will fail in this goal. The School of the Damned operates outside of the officially sanctioned academic institution, but does this out of necessity because the current system increasingly restricts access to such institutions. This course has been conceived of and produced as a pragmatic response to this current system, therefore, and as a protest against it, should not be construed as advocating or condoning an independent system of education based on values of entrepreneurism, philanthropy, libertarianism or self-reliance.

 

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Tumblr https://schoolofthedamnedarchive.tumblr.com/5-2014

 

Horse hospital degree show https://www.thehorsehospital.com/whats-on 

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