Article: On Kristina Lee Podesva's colourschool: Michael Birchall looks at the Vancouver artist's ongoing experiment in art pedagogy--and puts it into the context of the wider trend.

When I first arrived in Vancouver at the beginning of 2008, I was quickly introduced to colourschool--a freethinking, alternative 'school' founded by local artist Kristina Lee Podesva to facilitate the speculative study of five colours: white, black, red, yellow and brown. Since 2006, this project has operated somewhat parasitically within traditional learning institutions: to date, the University of British Columbia and Emily Carr University of Art + Design have each hosted a year-long instalment. When occupying an institution, colourschool constitutes a subversive gesture, creating a free space for learning that simultaneously rejects the institution's structural ...

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