An art project manifesting in SPACE, the CITY, KNOWLEDGES, and DOCUMENTS

With Luis Berríos-Negrón, Julie Carvalho & Roland Lauth & Sebastien Stolarczyk, Exit Deutschland e.V., Alicia Frankovich, 
Ha Za Vu Zu, Naomi Hennig, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Vladan Jeremić & Rena Raedle & Ina Wudtke, Rajkamal Kahlon, Frida Klingberg, Ins A Kromminga & Jannik Franzen, KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Julia Lazarus, Achim Lengerer, Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft e.V., Method Fund, Gabriel Rossell Santillán, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat (Squat Monument), RYBN.ORG, Lerato Shadi, The Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime – Federation of Antifascists, Andreas Wutz a.o.

Curated by Janine Halka, Suza Husse, Julia Lazarus

8. September - 19. November 2016 at DISTRICT and at other locations in Berlin

What would an aesthetic education of the present be? How do we live, create and where do we find knowledge? Whose knowledge, whose aesthetics, whose present, whose we?

Undisciplinary Learning takes the novel The Aesthetic of Resistance by Peter Weiss (1916–1982) as an impetus to question current knowledge politics at the intersection of artistic, political, and pedagogical practices.
In the book, the political interpretation of art and the collective appropriation of knowledge form the foundation for the development of resistant subjectivities, collectivization, and the mobilization against oppression and exploitation. Selfeducation
as a form of emancipation comprises not only the crux of Weiss’ trilogy, its densely woven textual surface seems to anticipate other, collective forms of reading and therein acts of listening to and dis-/agreening with one another.

Adopting an intersectional perspective on its historical expansion, on its urban resonances in Berlin and current fields of insurgency, Undisciplinary Learning suggests expanded readings and critical relocations of The Aesthetics of Resistance.
Education is probed as a mode of political imagination that recognizes heterogeneous forms of knowledge and integrates the body, the city, relationships, and the environment as spaces of un_learning. Undisciplinary Learning maps artistic approaches
that enact self-empowering pedagogies – especially from feminist, queer, and decolonial contexts – to radically question hegemonic cultures of knowledge.

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Undisciplinary Learning - Remapping the Aesthetics of Restistance