Unlearning Exercises: Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning

Shares a set of collective unlearning exercises to make way for a culture of equality, difference and fairness in art organizatons.

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.

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