Infernal learning and the class clash

This article is part of a larger artistic and arts-based research project carried out by a group of artists, educators and academics with the intent to explore the notions of class that have influenced our stories of growing into academic lives and finding our ways in the competitive art worlds. Our broader aim is to bring forward problematic and challenging aspects of research, education, arts and society and through our explorations that engage others, jointly generate collective, alternative solutions to current academic and education practices. We do not have the space within this text to explore all the themes that currently inform our ongoing collaborative and collective research processes. Instead, we elaborate on some chosen themes in this text: materiality, embodied and emotional responses to experiences of class and exclusion.