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<p><i>Two books on the practices of unlearning through artistic
practices now available for ordering and/or free download…</i><br>
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<b><a href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1396">Unlearning
Routines of the Impossible </a></b><br>
Edited by Janine Armin and Annette Krauss<br>
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What are the struggles, entanglements, and joys of practicing
unlearning in predominantly western contexts? <i>Unlearning
Routines of the Impossible</i> 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.<br>
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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.<br>
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<a href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1393"><b>Unlearning
Exercises. Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning</b></a><br>
Edited by Binna Choi, Annette Krauss, Yolande Zola Zoli van der
Heide, Liz Allan<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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<i>Unlearning Exercises</i> 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.<br>
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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<br>
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Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia<br>
In collaboration with <a href="https://casco.art">Casco Art
Institute: Working for the Commons</a>, Utrecht<br>
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