Art Class

The story

Art Class (2020, 49 mins) is a filmed performance lecture playing on, and exploring, the perennial tension between the two key words in its title. It uses the tropes of scholarly presentation and personal confession alongside extracts from the artist’s work, guest interventions, martial arts and meditation exercises and evidentiary found material. The film tests the limits of access that working-class artists have to cultural production and to the relevant institutions circulating these outcomes. Alternately playful and provocative, serious and satirical, Art Class favors wit over weaponizing and reflection over rhetoric but does not pull its punches when it comes to the real obstructions to working class creative progress, or to the strategies necessary to overcome such outmoded hindrances.

Cast & crew

Andrea Luka ZimmermanSelf

Kamby Kamara

Kamby KamaraCast

Aziz Rahman

Aziz RahmanCast

Carrie Butterick

Carrie ButterickCast

Mwiinga Twyman

Mwiinga TwymanCast

Anne-Louise Buckley

Anne-Louise BuckleyCast

Patrick Onione

Patrick OnioneCast

Maria Benjamin

Maria BenjaminCast

David James Roberts

David James RobertsCast

Matthew Harle

Matthew HarleCast

Errol McGlashan

Errol McGlashanCast

Gillian McIver

Gillian McIverCast