[Minorcompositions] Unlearning Routines of the Impossible / Unlearning Exercises

[Minor Compositions]

/Two books on the practices of unlearning through artistic practices now 
available for ordering and/or free download…/

*Unlearning Routines of the Impossible 
<https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1396>*
Edited by Janine Armin and Annette Krauss

What are the struggles, entanglements, and joys of practicing unlearning 
in predominantly western contexts? /Unlearning Routines of the 
Impossible/ responds to this question through revisiting the artistic 
research projects Sites for Unlearning, (co-)initiated by Annette 
Krauss. The sites are experimental gatherings where the aim is to 
collaboratively unlearn dominant forms of thinking and doing, and the 
affective production of impossibilities within institutions to intervene 
in social injustices. The artistic projects are accompanied, framed, and 
challenged by invited essays, collective conversations, and scenes on 
what unlearning might do and be. Together they form a support structure 
– a scaffolding for living – for practicing unlearning.

Includes contributions and materials from the Feminist Search Tools 
working group, Nancy Jouwe, Annette Krauss, KUNCI Collective & Study 
Forum, Ferdiansyah Thajib, and, and Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide.


*Unlearning Exercises. Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning* 
<https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1393>
Edited by Binna Choi, Annette Krauss, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, 
Liz Allan

Learning is often progress-oriented, institutionally driven, and focused 
on the accumulation of knowledge, skills, and behaviors. In contrast, 
unlearning is directed towards embodied forms of knowledge and habitual 
ways of thinking and doing. This book shares the collective study of 
processes of unlearning, taking art and art institutions as sites for 
unlearning. Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons becomes the 
experimental case with collective unlearning exercises expressing the 
conditions, modalities, and implications of a particular group of art 
workers. Unlearning processes make way for social transformations that 
lead towards the culture of equality and difference which we call the 
culture of the commons.

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.

/Unlearning Exercises/ range from daily practices like cleaning together 
and off-balancing chairs, to those concerning systemic, seemingly 
unresolvable issues such as collective authorship and fair wage. These 
exercises can be adapted to your specific (institutional) contexts 
within and beyond the arts. The book also includes related personal 
accounts, essays, political criticism, and collective conversations on 
institutionalized habits.

Contributors: Liz Allan, Antariksa, Jacob Apostol, Binna Choi, Cráter 
Invertido (Yollotl Alvarado, Andrés García), Joy Melanie Escani, 
Brigitta Isabella, Faisol Iskandor, Ismiatun, Nancy Jouwe, Annette 
Krauss, Emily Pethick, Andrea Phillips, Ying Que, Kerstin Stakemeier, 
Sakiko Sugawa, Syafiatudina, Ferdiansyah Thajib, Marina Vishmidt, 
Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Erminah Zaenah, and the shifting team 
at Casco Art Institute

Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia
In collaboration with Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons 
<https://casco.art>, Utrecht


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