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)
- Nienke Draaisma (PhD-candidate, NL)
- Jeroen van den Eijnde (ArtEZ University of the Arts, NL)
- Rahul K. Gairola (Digital Narratives Studio, HK, and Indo-Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University, AU)
- Pascal Gielen (University of Antwerp, BE)
- Anthony Heidweiller (Amsterdam University of the Arts, NL)
- John Johnston (ArtEZ University of the Arts, NL)
- Hanneke van Laarhoven (Radboud University/HKU, NL)
- Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (University of Amsterdam, 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 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK, and Harvard University, US)
- 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)
- Anna Wetzel (Independent Researcher, Nijmegen, NL)
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
For many years, teachers, artists, and academics have drawn attention to education as an open discipline with creative space that ‘advocates agency over intention and whose trade is critical intimacy’ (Mieke Bal, 2012). Rather than being a site of intimidation, conventions, and rules, education should be a place where friendship is the motor for response. It should look at hegemonic structures in society, art, and pedagogy itself, and thus be able to critically question these. Open, reversible, respectful pedagogies as such lead to creative thinking, to open minds, and to building critical, communicative citizenship across borders.
In panoramically exploring this understanding of education, this volume of essays traverses 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 examines art and its objects, and how these become teaching objects that trigger the beholder’s imagination and knowledge. ‘Unlearning’ is a subjective process that values organic, unexpected experiences over objective, scripted learning itineraries.
This multi-disciplinary, international collection unites many possible prisms of re-thinking pedagogy in a scholarly context that embraces critical intimacy. It thus offers readers a kaleidoscope of how art and imagination can teach us about ourselves, our world(s), and a cosmopolitan life together through art and (un)learning.
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