Shared Knowledge
Summary
98
Knowledge
Winter 2020
How does art reinvent science, research, education and their institutions? What kind of knowledge does the artist produce? What is the role of curators in the face of the need to recover spaces for sharing knowledge in our weakened democracies? How does the museum position itself as a place of knowledge at a time when the university is increasingly subject to the imperatives of economic profitability and private funding? Issue 98 of Esse arts + opinions attempts to answer these questions by proposing texts that problematize the relationship between art and knowledge in contemporary artistic and curatorial practices.
Editorial
Feature
Decolonizing Knowledge and the Power of Becoming Common: An Interview with Seloua Luste Boulbina
Knowledge and Not-Knowledge Production in the Art School
Teaching Each Other, Mediated by the World
The Pedagogical Contribution of Sonia Boyce’s Intervention at the Manchester Art Gallery
The inexhaustible Surplus of Knowledge in Art Objects
Pulling Up the Image, Going Back in Time: Reconstitution as Knowledge in Klaus Scherübel’s Work
Kilo Hōkū : Hawaiian Wayfinding Resurfaced
Landscape as Pedagogy: Dancing Sápmi
Portfolios
Columns
Reviews
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Plastics
Winter 2025
Analyzing plastic in the field of art runs the risk of raising many environmental dilemmas. Far from extolling plastic yet without denying its utility, this issue is interested in our ways of coexisting with synthetic material in order to evaluate the consequences and seek alternative solutions and to claim a kinship with what gives this material its glory: its plasticity, which expresses the power both to receive and to give form.
Cover: Dan Lam
Nibble, 2020.
Photo: courtesy of Dan Lam Studio, Dallas