Infernal learning and the class clash

This article is part of a larger artistic and arts-based research project carriedout by a group of artists, educators and academics with the intent to explorethe notions of class that have influenced our stories of growing into academiclives and finding our ways in the competitive art worlds. Our broader aim isto bring forward problematic and challenging aspects of research, education,arts and society and through our explorations that engage others, jointly gen-erate collective, alternative solutions to current academic and education prac-tices. We do not have the space within this text to explore all the themes thatcurrently inform our ongoing collaborative and collective research processes.Instead, we elaborate on chosen themes ofmateriality, embodied and emotionalresponses to experiences of class, andexclusion.