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30 / 30 Conclusions: Unlearning Not-teaching
The summer academy 2015 is over. For the 63rd time all students and teachers have left the academy to go home and continue their lives. And this is how I feel right now:
What have we learnt? Or rather what have we un-learnt throughout the past thirty blog entries? Certainly, a lot about the ways in which artistic processes work and don’t work. The sheer multitude of questions that appeared, disappeared and were transformed in the different classes is still astonishing to me. While other domains of life are very much governed by protocols and standards, the production and particularly the teaching of art seems to resist these very two in any possible way.
This is why I will finish my time as your observer in residence with a list of questions. Each question links to one of my previous posts, but don’t expect an answer. Rather, make that question your own and see if it resonates with others that you carry. This is my documentation of and contribution to unlearning and not-teaching at the academy.
What does it mean to work in public?
How do I work with what is there?
What is the difference between observation and exploration?
What does it take to arrive at an intention?
Did I turn my past into an obstacle or into my material?
Can my material anticipate my process?
Which questions are my questions?
When to adapt and when to express myself?
Which objects pave the way for the final idea?
How am I complicit with what I do not want?
What is alienating me? And what could alienate my alienation?
What is the role of humour in all this?
Which mental maps guide my procedures?
How can I deal with indefiniteness?
How can I formalize my process? Do I need to formalize it?
Which stories need to be told?
How do I get intimate with my material?
What is the legacy of the gaze that I am taking?
What does my body do, when I do what I do?
What do you do, when you don’t know what you do?
Which black boxes stand in our way? On which black boxes do you stand?
What is the process and what is the result?
How do I loose my sense of constraint towards a material?
What remains undone in all that I have been doing?
What do I let go? What do I keep up?
Finally, I would like to thank all of the people that shared their knowledge, concerns, hopes and doubts with me throughout the last six weeks. This is your knowledge and your wisdom. If you are interested to follow my writing beyond the blog, follow these links:
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