Editors - Ewa EinhornJeuno JE KimKarolin Meunier
Krabstadt is a small town located somewhere in the Arctic where the Nordic Countries send their unwanted people and problems. It’s populated by the long-term unemployed, asylum seekers, immigrants, and those with too many overdue bills.
Recently, Krabstadt has absorbed an influx of unemployed artists with PhDs, burned-out artist-teachers/teacher-artists, and institutionally stuck creatures. The local Krabstadt government seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and opened an Education Center to push Krabstadt to the forefront of education. The journal and subsequent events linked to KEC seek to establish webworks that conflate online with onsite to create platforms for learning, real and imagined.
But how does one start a school? What constitutes a “school” and how does one “start”, given that the whole endeavor takes place in the context of a fictional framework, the animated city of Krabstadt? We decided to use methods and objects specific to animation, where fiction, farce, and fantasy are negotiated to both challenge and make sense of lived experiences. Consequently, rehabilitated volcanoes on anger management programs are teachers at KEC, while students are broadly recruited to include flora, fauna, and fungi.