You’re invited to the MASTERCLASSES TOWARDS DISMANTLING THE MASTER STORY OF LEADERSHIP with DR JACK KY TAN 25 FEBRUARY 2025 13:00-14:00 

Audre Lorde called for new tools to dismantle the master’s house. Forty years on, amid a time of multiple crises including that of democracy, climate and the essence of ‘leadership’ itself, what the Black queer poet and thought-leader has urged is more urgent than ever. Conceived in 2019 and research-led, the international and hybrid Masterclasses Towards Dismantling the Master Story of Leadership are now part of the innovative MA Arts and Cultural Leadership programme, at Art, Media and Technology, Winchester School of Art. Through dialogues and workshops with bold, atypical and/or new thinkers, researchers, workers, makers and change-makers, the Masterclasses explore decolonising and/or otherwise disruptive ways to understand and shape leadership. The series is our creative, critical and love-led response to dangerous stories and structures that plague us today and are co-produced with students, who will be leaders tomorrow.

We are delighted to host the formidable Dr Jack Ky Tan on 25/2. Jack is a neurodivergent and queer UK based interdisciplinary artist (b. Singapore). Working across performance, sculpture, installation and institutional critique, Jack’s practice is an ongoing exploration of social justice that blurs the boundaries between, art, law, governance, and consultancy. Looking toward alternative cosmologies and knowledge systems predating Judaeo-Christian or colonial narratives, Jack is interested in interrogating the legacies of empire with a particular interest in Commonwealth and Tropical epistemologies of resistance. 

NO NEED TO BOOK, SIMPLY JOIN ON TEAMS HERE (Meeting ID: 393 882 819 011 Passcode: Ji7fe3ix). The session will be recorded. By joining, participants agree to abide by our community guidelines, detailed below. Queries, access needs: email Dr Kai Syng Tan k.s.tan@soton.ac.uk