Serrum: KURIKULAB: Moving Class

The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) presents the exhibition KURIKULAB: Moving Class by Serrum, an artist collective based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Serrum gathers members from diverse backgrounds, who mainly work in the realms of art and education. The group operates across various formats and media, ranging from platforms for discussing education, politics, and urban issues, to video and comics that have been shown internationally.

This exhibition is the first showcase of its kind in Japan, and features three “local community” and “learning” themed event-style works that encourage dialogue among visitors, while at once giving an overview of Serrum’s activities to date. The event as a whole is designed to function as a platform for accumulating and sharing the values and the knowledge of those visiting.

As a stage for people of various generations and backgrounds to engage in a dialogue about “learning,” the exhibition will be an opportunity for encountering new possibilities in collaboration and education, and for reconsidering forms of friendly behavior toward others.

Diverse learning opportunities for sharing values and knowledge
The word “KURIKULAB” in the title of this exhibition is a coined word combining the Indonesian word “kurikulum” (curriculum) and the English word “laboratory,” which indicates their experimental stance toward the existing educational system.

This exhibition consists of three works by Serrum—“KURIKULAB,” “Ideal School,” and “Knowledge Market”—each of which takes the form of an event that encourages dialogue among people while unfolding across various topics and formats. Visitors are invited to participate, get to know the ideas of others through records of past events displayed at the respective venue, and leave their own comments. There will be spaces at the venues for visitors to engage in conversations over a cup of tea, and thereby accumulate diverse values and knowledge through the total experience of the exhibition.

KURIKULAB
Participants in this workshop think about the ideal school from the learner‘s perspective. Using a school model, we will consider the physical aspects of a school, and the rules and systems that govern it. Serrum’s approach is intended to explore the imagination of learners about schools from the three aspects of school culture, school system, and school building design.

Ideal School
A workshop to think about the ideal school from the learner’s perspective: using a school model, we will consider the physical aspects of a school and the rules and systems that govern it. Serrum’s approach is intended to explore the imagination of learners about schools from the three aspects of school culture, school system, and school building design.

Knowledge Market
September 18, November 13, December 18
This work is a program in which participants exchange their knowledge with each other on a one-to-one basis. The program is based on the idea that “everyone is a teacher and everyone is a student.” This Market is a place where participants can exchange knowledge through dialogue, and where the “learner” and the “teacher” are mutually interchangeable rather than representing a one-way acquisition of knowledge.