Art as Unlearning

Art as Unlearning
Title Art as Unlearning PDF eBook
Author John Baldacchino
Publisher Routledge
Pages 285
Release 2018-12-12
Genre Education
ISBN 0429845545

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Art as Unlearning makes an argument for art’s unlearning as a manneristpedagogy. Art’s pedagogy facilitates a form of forgetfulness by extending what happens in the practice of the arts in their visual, auditory and performative forms. The concept of learning has become predominantly hijacked by foundational paradigms such as developmental narratives whose positivistic approach has limited the field of education to a narrow practice within the social sciences. This book moves away from these strictures by showing how the arts confirm that unlearning is not contingent on learning, but rather anticipates and avoids it. This book cites the experience and work of artists who, by unlearning the canon, have opened a diversity of possibilities by which we make and live the world. Moving beyond clichés of art’s teachability and what we have to learn through the arts, it advances a scenario where unlearning is uniquely presented to us by the diverse practices that we identify with the arts. The very notion of art as unlearning stems from and represents a fundamental critique of the constructivist pedagogies that have dominated arts education for over half a century. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education, philosophy of education, history of education, pedagogy of art and art education. It will also appeal to educators, art educators, and artists interested in the pedagogy of art.

Unlearning Exercises

Unlearning Exercises
Title Unlearning Exercises PDF eBook
Author Binna Choi
Publisher
Pages 208
Release 2019-02-19
Genre Art
ISBN 9789492095534

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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.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.

Art of Unlearning

Art of Unlearning
Title Art of Unlearning PDF eBook
Author Chief Nyamweya
Publisher
Pages 124
Release 2018
Genre
ISBN 9789966820631

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The Art of UnLearning

The Art of UnLearning
Title The Art of UnLearning PDF eBook
Author Lisa Marie Pepe
Publisher
Pages 148
Release 2019-05-30
Genre
ISBN 9781949513080

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Maya Angelou once said, "Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women." In this collective piece of work, nine gifted women experts come together to do just that and share their individual stories of overcoming adversity in all its various forms. Each woman, although unique in her own identity and personal experience, shares a common bond with each of the other women in her desire to have a positive, meaningful, and lasting impact in the lives of those she reaches.

Art for Coexistence

Art for Coexistence
Title Art for Coexistence PDF eBook
Author Christine Ross
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 420
Release 2022-11-22
Genre Art
ISBN 0262371626

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An exploration of how contemporary art reframes and humanizes migration, calling for coexistence—the recognition of the interdependence of beings. In Art for Coexistence, art historian Christine Ross examines contemporary art’s response to migration, showing that art invites us to abandon our preconceptions about the current “crisis”—to unlearn them—and to see migration more critically, more disobediently. We (viewers in Europe and North America) must come to see migration in terms of coexistence: the interdependence of beings. The artworks explored by Ross reveal, contest, rethink, delink, and relink more reciprocally the interdependencies shaping migration today—connecting citizens-on-the-move from some of the poorest countries and acknowledged citizens of some of the wealthiest countries and democracies worldwide. These installations, videos, virtual reality works, webcasts, sculptures, graffiti, paintings, photographs, and a rescue boat, by artists including Banksy, Ai Weiwei, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Laura Waddington, Tania Bruguera, and others, demonstrate art’s power to mediate experiences of migration. Ross argues that art invents a set of interconnected calls for more mutual forms of coexistence: to historicize, to become responsible, to empathize, and to story-tell. Art history, Ross tells us, must discard the legacy of imperialist museology—which dissocializes, dehistoricizes, and depoliticizes art. It must reinvent itself, engaging with political philosophy, postcolonial, decolonial, Black, and Indigenous studies, and critical refugee and migrant studies.

Unlearning to Draw

Unlearning to Draw
Title Unlearning to Draw PDF eBook
Author Peter Jenny
Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
Pages 0
Release 2015-05-05
Genre Design
ISBN 9781616893736

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Unlearning to Draw looks to the art of children and outsider artists for inspiration, advocating a return to carefree, untrained drawing and a renewed focus on the joys of making rather than on the end result. Author Peter Jenny encourages readers to use family photographs as the starting point to develop their own types of outsider art.

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
Title Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race PDF eBook
Author Thomas Chatterton Williams
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 126
Release 2019-10-15
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0393608875

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A Time “Must-Read” Book of 2019 “[Williams] is so honest and fresh in his observations, so skillful at blending his own story with larger principles, that it is hard not to admire him.” —Andrew Solomon, New York Times Book Review (front page) The son of a “black” father and a “white” mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter—and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else. In telling the story of his family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white, he reckons with the way we choose to see and define ourselves. Self-Portrait in Black and White is a beautifully written, urgent work for our time.