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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. Unlearning 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

Choi, Binna --- Kunst --- kunst --- auteurschap --- artistieke vernieuwing --- equality [philosophical concept] --- coöperatie --- decolorizing --- Casco Art Institute [Utrecht] --- Art --- art [fine art] --- authorship --- artistic change --- cooperation --- Art and society --- 373.67.01 --- Onderwijs ; theorie ; over experimenteel leren --- Kritische pedagogiek --- Kunst en maatschappij --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Study and teaching --- Philosophy --- Onderwijs ; kunst- en architectuuronderwijs ; beschouwingen --- Social aspects --- Casco, Office for Art, Design, and Theory. --- Casco --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Primitive --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- art [discipline] --- social criticism