Unlearning Routines of the Impossible

Annette Krauss's artistic research is dedicated to unlearning deeply ingrained habits of thinking and doing in the face of social injustice. In her practice, she explores how we might engage with unlearning physically, intellectually, and collectively. What difficulties, complexities and joys arise when letting go of deep-seated routines within Western or transnational contexts? Who is the "we," and what role do institutional habits play in these processes? Krauss explores these questions together with various groups at the intersections of art, normalisation and the affective production of impossibilities – how embodied and institutional habits reinforce what seems unchangeable.

In the workshop, Annette will share some of her artistic approaches through texts, inputs and exercises that she offers as a lense into her artistic work on collective processes and (un-)disciplinary pedagogies.

Bio

Annette Krauss works as a researcher, artist and educator. She has (co-)initiated various long-term collaborative projects (www.hidden-curriculum.info, www.read-in.info, www.sitesforunlearning.tumblr.com, www.school-of-temporalities.info/, https://kkp.uni-ak.ac.at/en/dirty-pink-waters-of-collectivity/). These projects reflect and build upon the potential of collaborative practices while aiming at disrupting taken-for-granted truths in imagining ways of living and working together.

Coffee and tea will be provided in the morning and afternoon.

Registration

Participation is free. Please sign up via email to pass@hum.ku.dk. There are a limited number of seats.

Reading list

Please make yourself familiar with Annette Krauss’ work through the following books (For PhD students who wish to obtain ECTS credits (0.5), the reading list is mandatory):

Unlearning Exercises: Art Organisations as Sites for Unlearning (2018). Eds. Liz Allen, Binna Choi, Annette Krauss and Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide. Amsterdam/Utrecht: Valiz/Casco.

For download

We will specifically address: 

Toilet (T)issues #3: Against All Odds—Migrant Domestic Against All Odds—Migrant Domestic Labor Struggle and Forms of Organizing,
by Jacob Apostol, Binna Choi, Joy Melanie Escano, Jacob Apostol, Binna Choi, Joy Melanie Escano, Annette Krauss, Faisol Iskandar, Ismiatun, Sakiko Sugawa
Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide and Erminah Zaenah
p 111-129 

Afterword: Have You Had a Productive Day?
Binna Choi and Annette Krauss
p 165 – 183 

Unlearning Routines of the Impossible (2025). Eds. Janine Armin and Annette Krauss. Utrecht/ Wivenhoe: Casco Art Institute/Minor Composition. 

For download

We will specifically address:

In the Vortex of Institutional Lives
Annette Krauss and Ferdiansyah Thajib
pp. 23-41

Site for Unlearning (Zwarte Piet)
pp. 41-74

Wall Patrols, pp. 75-79

Bodies to Think With, pp. 123-127

Tired in Archives, pp. 201-205

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Hard copy purchase:

Casco Art Institute

Minor Composition