Countless Ways of Knowing: Looking at Images beyond the Frame as a Practice of Liberatory Pedagogy

exhibition A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions at the Serpentine Gallery, I was invited to develop a workshop for educators exploring anti-racist pedagogic practi-ces. I drew on the archival nature of Jafa ’ s exhibition made up of images of black social life from historic and family photographs, images captured by photographers and contemporary images drawn from sources such as Instagram and YouTube to propose a mixtape methodology. I asked the group to consider: Why Black Lives Matter? How do we as educators develop discursive and creative opportunities to support the understanding of why Black Lives Matter? Key to this was the idea of developing Countless Ways of Knowing 1 and understanding, through working with images beyond representation, to develop narratives beyond the frame of any single image creating connections to explore other possible ways of understanding and thinking about race, racism, and the role of images as an emancipatory possibility.