Unlearning School
Concept
A number of international institutions teach a kind of unlearning within the arts. A series of facilitators in different kinds of unlearning will run workshops teaching people unlearning of instruments, texts, the future and past, art skills etc. The institutions come from France, Indonesia, Germany and the UK.
Rory Macbeth UK
PAF France
Installation
Heavy Participation
Roaming
Light Participation
Workshops
International
Previously Exhibited In
Wandering Arts Biennial
AI
Political Therapy
Fluxus
Dance Workshops
Political Therapy
Take Over
Advocacy
Unlearning School
Fluxus
Wandering Biennial
Politics of Listening
AI
Fluxus
Political Therapy
Wandering Biennial
Take Over
Fluxus
Fluxus
Political Therapy
Unlearning School
Arts Advocacy
Wandering Arts Biennial
Politics of Listening
Dance Workshops
AI Workshops
Fluxus (USA)
Political Therapy (EU)
Unlearning (INDO, GER, FRA UK)
Wandering Biennial (BEL)
Dance (FRA, GER, SING)
AI (USA, INDIA)
Take Over (UK)
Take Over - For Sale version in Tate
Fluxus - Many major international galleries MOMA, Lourve
Political Therapy - Manifesta,
Unlearning - Next Documenta with ZKU, Gudskul
AI - Venice Biennale
Audience
Will probably attract more experimental crowd. (Regular art crowd)
Space
Workshop space variable depending on type of workshop from different institution.
Development
PREVIOUS
All of the institutions have given previous unlearning workshops or shown systems for unlearning which can easily be workshopped and shown here.
STAFFING
Some additional facilitators may be needed depending on the workshops.
Benefits
- Media-enticing spectacle.
- Highly engaged work, direct interaction with the community.
- It's a work that the "general public" may connect with physically and psychologically without an elaborate knowledge of art history.
- Relevance, currently prices of tertiary art education in Australia has risen so high in fees that it becomes unrealistic for a median income person to pay fees or pay back fees for an arts course, making art education now an activity for the wealthy or for inescapable very serious debt. This work further demonstrates how important art education is for highly imaginative, playful lateral thinking and how important the humanities are in our community.
Challenges
-Informing the public of the benefits of "unlearning".
Accomodations for Covid
- Workshops can happen via zoom easily.