Manifesto

The Institute for Anarchic Artistic Language Learning is a solution to the imperialistic, hegemony-perpetuating, economically-biassed language learning structures offered by the Goethe Institute, Alliance Francaise, Instituto Cervantes and the British Council; and more recently by popular websites such as DuoLinguo.  It is an attempt to spread the skill of language and language learning in a free, non-hierarchical, non-hegemonic manner. In doing so The Institute for Anarchic Artistic Language Learning questions pedagogy as a canon.  

The IAALL aims to develop into a p2p, web-based institute for proliferation of language-learning techniques which expand the current understandings of how one must learn a language. 

It starts as a documentation of possibly anarchic practices Ahilan Ratnamohan has undertaken in his artistic research into the process of learning a language and - through collaboration with other artists and language learners - grows into a community and a platform for sharing all types of techniques to defeat the powers that be.    

THE GOALS

The goal is to create a community-run institute, which is eventually accessible in all languages.

To potentially arrive at a sound p2p system, a la Wikipedia, which allows contributions from the community in order to continually expand.  

To use this platform to research and promote alternative language learning techniques.

To plant the seeds for pedagogical research on seemingly absurd topics which can be legitimised through an artistic entry point and perspective.