‘Take your time to make sure you get it wrong’ is the principle for the after-school class ‘Spaghetti Club’, explains Michael Crowe in this film describing the content and outcomes of the programme.
Michael Crowe explains the ideas behind ‘Spaghetti Club’, an after-school class where children pursue creative writing and drawing exercises led by Crowe.
Set against a selection of the children’s work, this film traces ‘Spaghetti Club’ from its beginnings as a discussion group to a writing and drawing club that eventually established itself on Instagram, with Crowe reflecting on exercises and methodologies for producing ‘the wrong answers’.
Since 2018, Michael Crowe has run ‘Spaghetti Club’, an after-school class at Grasmere Primary School, London. An exhibition of the club’s work was one of frieze’s ’Top 10 Exhibitions of 2020 in UK and Ireland’. Michael also publishes artists’ books on topics such as video games, bum poems and psychic farce and works as a contemporary dance consultant.
This film is part of SHIFT, Freelands Foundation’s quarterly series of short films spotlighting varied practices, approaches and philosophies within art education.
Captions and editing: Sixbetween.
All audiovisual material and research is courtesy of the artist.