Art-Based (Un)Learning
Unexpected Dialogues with Artworks
- Forthcoming: expected Summer 2026. You can pre-order this book in our webshop. As soon as the book is available, we will dispatch your order.
Editors: Jeroen Lutters, Fabiola Camuti, Rahul K. Gairola
Contributors (tbc):
- Marcio Aquiles (University of São Paulo, BR)
- Dennis Atkinson (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
- Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam, NL)
- John Baldacchino (University of Wisconsin, Madison; USA)
- Marc Boumeester (ArtEZ University of the Arts, NL)
- Daniëlle Bruggeman (ArtEZ University of the Arts, NL)
- Fabiola Camuti (HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, NL)
- Nirav Christophe (HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, NL)
- Yra van Dijk (Leiden University, NL)
- Els Draaisma (NL)
- Jeroen van den Eijnde (ArtEZ University of the Arts, NL)
- Rahul K. Gairola (Murdoch University, Western AU)
- Pascal Gielen (University of Antwerp, BE)
- Anthony Heidweiller (Amsterdam University of the Arts, NL)
- John Johnston (ArtEZ University of the Arts, NL)
- Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (University of Amsterdam, NL)
- Hanneke van Laarhoven (Radboud University/HKU, NL)
- Annie Loui (University of California, Irvine; USA)
- Jeroen Lutters (ArtEZ University of the Arts, NL)
- Daniela Moosmann (HKU University of the Arts, NL)
- Emmanuel Ngue (Higher Teacher Training College of Bertoua, University of Ngaoundéré, CM)
- Tunde Ope-Davis (University of Lagos, NG)
- Patricia Pisters (Amsterdam University, NL)
- Niels van Poecke (Amsterdam University, NL)
- Venka Purushothaman (Lasalle College of the Arts, SG)
- Michael Scherer-Rath (Radboud University, NL)
- Nishant Shah (Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
- Elisabeth Silva Lopes (University of Sao Paulo, BR)
- Lisbet Skregelid (University of Agder, NO)
- Michael (Mike) Slade (Independent Artist, Western AU)
- Daniel Tucker (Independent Artist, Philadelphia, US)
Design: Sam de Groot
Series: Serie vis-à-vis
Partners: ArtEZ Arnhem; HKU Utrecht
Forthcoming: expected Summer 2026, Valiz | pb | c. 420 pp. | 23,4 x 16,6 cm (h x w) | English | ISBN 978-94-93246-61-4 | € 29,90
Since long many educators, artists, and academics have drawn attention to education as an open discipline, needing to be a creative space that ‘advocates agency over intention and whose trade is critical intimacy’ (Mieke Bal, 2012). Instead of a place for intimidation, conventions, and rules, it should be a place where friendship is the motor for response. It should look at hegemonic structures in society, pedagogy itself, and art, and be able to question these. Open, reversible, respectful pedagogies should lead to creative thinking, to open minds, to building critical and communicative citizenship.
This volume of essays includes the fields of cinema studies, dance, fine arts, fashion, literature, design, music, theatre, photography, storytelling, technology studies, pedagogy, politics, sociology, psychology, medicine, media, and contemporary cultural studies. It looks at art and its objects and how these become teaching objects that trigger our imagination and knowledge. ‘Unlearning’ is a subjective process that values organic, unexpected experiences over objective, scripted learning itineraries.
The book attempts to bring together the many possible prisms of this kaleidoscope of how art and imagination can teach us about ourselves, living together, and the world. Structure (each containing an introduction and about 5 essays):
Part 1: Why (Un)Learning? Urgency, Conflicts and Epistemic Struggles
Part 2: Teaching Objects: Dialogues with Artworks
Part 3: Re-Designing Futures and Possible Worlds
Part 4: Storytelling: Embodiment, Affect, and Care