Unlearning exercises art organizations as sites for unlearning

Learning is often progress-oriented, institutionally driven, and focused on the accumulation of knowledge, skills and behaviour. In contrast, unlearning is directed towards embodied forms of knowledge and the (un)-conscious operation of ways of thinking and doing. Unlearning denotes an active critic...

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Körperschaft: Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory (Herausgebendes Organ)
Weitere Verfasser: Allan, Liz (VerfasserIn einer Einleitung)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Valiz, book and cultural projects 2018
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Zusammenfassung:Learning is often progress-oriented, institutionally driven, and focused on the accumulation of knowledge, skills and behaviour. In contrast, unlearning is directed towards embodied forms of knowledge and the (un)-conscious operation of ways of thinking and doing. Unlearning denotes an active critical investigation of normative structures and practices in order to become aware and get rid of taken-for-granted "truths" of theory and practice. This book shares the process of unlearning, taking art and art institutions as sites for unlearning and Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons as an experimental case.0Unlearning at an art organization has led to collective unlearning exercises that express the conditions, modalities, and implications of a particular group of art workers. The business of running an art institution is irrevocably tied up with the anxiety and stress of constantly "being busy" making things visible in competitive and hierarchical conditions. This busyness causes the habitual undervaluing of what often remains invisible?so-called reproductive works such as cleaning, fixing, and caring. Unlearning processes make way for social transformations that lead towards the culture of equality and difference which we call the culture of the commons.
Beschreibung:Met literatuuropgave
Beschreibung:231 Seiten
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22 cm
ISBN:9789492095534
978-94-92095-53-4
949209553X
94-92095-53-X