SHIFTER 24 || NYC Art Book Fair

Alessandra Pomarico

Shifter invites:

Join us at the New York Art Book Fair (September 20-22) for the launch of Shifter 24: Learning and Unlearning.

On September 22, we will host a special event, “Unlearning Philanthropy,” with Sara Reisman of the Rubin Foundation.

(for the locations and timing please scroll down)

In Learning and Unlearning, which began as a series of discussions held from 2017-19, we ask questions about world-making. By unlearning our relationship to the places and temporalities we occupy, can we learn new ways of inhabiting the world? And by reconsidering our relation to work and well-being, can we find new ways to see, feel and understand the world? This recalibration of how we see the world and consequently how we live our lives is the central concern of the artists, educators, and thinkers whose writings follow.

Unlearning, for us, is not a reactionary opposition to intellectualism and the academy. While learning is a broad category that includes the basic transmission of information and skills, we use the word unlearning to describe approaches to learning that bring into question the norms that structure learning itself. It is to fundamentally rethink, and thus transform, how we critically engage with the world while remaining open to the differences that shape it. Unlearning is to question not only what must be learned, but also how and from whom.

Contributors:
Abou Farman, Adrian Williams, Alessandra Pomarico, Alexis Wilkinson & Ander Mikalson, Annette Krauss & Casco Art Institute, Anthea Behm & Luke Stettner, Binna Choi & Yolande van der Heide , Bruce Robbins, Danilo Correale & Sandro Mezzadra, Eric Cazdyn, Huong Ngô & Hông-Ân Truong , KK de La Vida, Livia Alexander & Richard Jochum, Lou Cantor, Marco Passaro, Maria Pia Bevilacqua, Marianna Fazzi & Sara Maria d’Onofrio of ALAGroup, Maria Rosa Sossai, Marina van Zuylen, Mushkhar Butt, Nora Sternfeld, Samantha Ozer, Susan Jahoda & Caroline Woolard of BFAMFAPhd, Terike Haapoja, Tiago de Abreu Pinto

Editors:
Avi Alpert, Sreshta Rit Premnath

----------------------------------------

September 20–22
B19 (The Dome)
MoMA PS1
22–25 Jackson Ave
Queens, NY 11101

Fri, Sep 20, 1–7 pm
Sat, Sep 21, 1–8 pm
Sun, Sep 22, 1–7 pm

-----------------------------------------

Sunday, September 22, 3 – 4 pm
The Classroom
2nd floor, MoMA PS1

----------------------------------------