Un/Learning Economies Closed Workshop

The session will begin with a close-reading and discussion of Lifelong Learning Policies devised by the European Commission. We will look at the connection between policy-making as a strategic implementation of knowledge-based economies in Europe since the 1990s together with the formation of a pedagogical subjectivity that is intertwined with the advancement of an artistic subject as the role model for a new economy.

Excerpts from texts on lifelong learning by the Commission of European Communities (2000-2016) will be read through the work of various scholars including Sylvia Wynter, Stefano Harney, Fred Moten and Andrea Phillips. We will explore how language signals the economisation of learning and attempt to locate practices or spaces that are not colonised under current conditions. 

We invite participants to reflect on their own learning economies and share insights into the material conditions of different forms of work and pedagogical practice. How is your work resourced and sustained? How is learning shaped by these economies? Can we view alternative economies or envisage counter-practices for education beyond the hegemony of economic models?  

This is a closed workshop, but 5 places are available to students. To register your interest in participating, please email Harry.Weeks@ed.ac.uk by 5pm on 24th January, including a 50-100-word expression of interest outlining the relevance of the workshop themes to your own practice, life or research.

Biography

Annette Krauss’ practice addresses the intersection of art, politics and everyday life. Her artistic work emerges through di erent media, such as performance, video, historical and everyday research, pedagogy and texts. Krauss has (co-)initiated various long-term collaborative practices: Hidden Curriculum, Sites for Unlearning, Read-in, ASK!, Read the Masks. Tradition is Not Given, and School of Temporalities. These projects re ect and build upon the potential of collaborative practices while aiming to disrupt “truths” that are taken for granted in theory and practice.

Recent collaborations, exhibitions, lectures, screenings, and workshops have taken place at Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; KUNCI, Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta; The Showroom, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunstverein, Wiesbaden; and Whitechapel Gallery. Since 2011, Krauss has been a lecturer at HKU Fine Art, Utrecht. Currently, she holds a Post-Doc position at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.