Unlearning Routines of the Impossible / Unlearning Exercises
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:07 pm
Two books on the practices of unlearning through artistic practices now available for ordering and/or free download…
Unlearning Routines of the Impossible
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
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 behaviours. 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 institutionalised 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 ArtInstitute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht
Unlearning Routines of the Impossible
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
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 behaviours. 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 institutionalised 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 ArtInstitute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht