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
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Yet what about abstraction today? Long confined to formalist and self-referential imperatives, abstraction has gradually freed itself from the modernism yolk to recapture its evocative power. This issue proposes to turn away from the dogma of Abstraction as a historical genre to consider its various plastic and semantic avenues. In this invitation to explore abstractions, we wish to re-establish a dialogue between content and form, between the political and the poetic, by engaging with works that evoke reality differently. Whether they are qualified as abstract, non-figurative, or non-objective, these works certainly tell us stories.