#videotutorials * with Pane project & Like A Little Disaster

#videotutorials 02

curated by PANE project (Milan) and Like A Little Disaster (Polignano a Mare) as part of H-O-W-T-O, hosted by AQNB 

#videotutorials by Asafo Black (Nuna Adisenu- Doe, Scrapa, Jeffrey Otoo, Samuel Kortey Baah, Denyse Gawu-Mensah, Larry Bonćhaka), Beki Basch, Sam Blackwood, Clémentine Blaison, Neckar Doll, Naomi Gilon, Blebo Michael Jackson, Candice Jacobs, Perce Jerrom, Marisol Malatesta (Tilde Forno Artigiano), Fabiola Mele (with Salim Douma, Dana-Fiona Armour, Lorenzo Xiques, Iseult Perrault, David Herman, g. olmo stuppia, Felice Moramarco, Dalia Maini, Luca Bosani, Guildor Gallo, Filip-Andreas Skrapic, Samuel Fasse, Yslam Boys, Salomé Chatriot, Twee Whistler, Rada Kozelj), Sam Meredith, Carlos Noronha Feio, Omsk Social Club, Orchidana + Like A Little Disaster, PANE project, Luca Pozzi, Primeira Desordem, Sarra Tansel, The Sunroom (Ellie Hunter & McKeever Donovan), Underground Flower (with Tadpole Origin, Treasureall, Torre Alain, Valerie You, Virtue Village, Vunkwan, Rasheed Mirza, Don Elektro, Ian Bruner), Plus Wang

Khaby Lame (Khabane Lame) was born in 2000 in Senegal and lives in Chivasso – near Turin, Italy – with his family. He is the Italian who has the most followers on social networks: he has even more followers than Mark Zuckerberg.

Khaby Lame’s « reaction videos » are short videos where he shoots himself reacting to other videos, never including dialogue in Italian, but simply using facial and body mimicry. He spots viral videos with other users performing strange actions by complicating them for no reason, then he shows how he achieves the same result in a much simpler and natural way. While doing so, he always maintains the same gestures and the same expression of bored disbelief, almost resigned discouragement, towards the unnecessarily complicated videos of others. His video tutorials are a mockery of certain fashions, trends and quirks typical of the most popular social media.

The internet is a wide place. Content-hosting platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram are crowded with short ‘how to’ films on any thinkable subject, including dance, makeup, cooking, DIY, gardening, health, beauty, cheating. An immense know-how platform of tips and hacks.

Besides being the ultimate expression of self-promotion, the ‘how to’ #videotutorials (a still widely unregulated field) are a primary mode of interaction between users, one of the most popular ways of everyday learning, a pedagogical form?

For this #videoturials edition, artists were invited to reflect on their relationship to school and transmission. What is the future of art schools in a time of crisis? Do we need to improve efforts in favor of alternative pedagogies or new ways of transmission? Could art schools be privileged spaces for experimentation and how can a recreational tool go beyond its original function and expand into an ironic yet pedagogical form?