Last Friday (January 10th) was the unofficial start to Our Unlearning Hour, an offshoot of This Decoloniality?, last semester’s K’acha Willaykuna Reading Group. Our Unlearning Hour is a weekly gathering every Friday at 9:30-10:30am (officially starting January 24th), at Heirloom Café at The Wexner Center for the Arts for developing exercises of unlearning grounded in Indigenous Arts and Humanities. Inspired by the visit of Mapuche artist Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste last November, and in preparation for future K’acha Willaykuna artist residencies, each week we will exchange ideas for unlearning exercises as a community as well as space to discuss short readings and other media resources shared by members of the K’acha Willaykuna group throughout the semester.
At the end of each hour, we will draft a short newsletter (to be sent out the following Monday) with a summary of that morning’s session and links to resources for everyone in the K’acha Willaykuna project (this is a pilot newsletter from last Friday’s unofficial session!). These resources will be brief and accessible, supplementing the more research-focused ongoing bibliography for the project, started in our last session of This Decoloniality? last semester (and available here).
For the unofficial Our Unlearning Hour last Friday (January 10th), I spent the hour writing the description of the project and also compiling a series of publications that I’ve been reading as part of my own unlearning:
From left to right:
Never Settle: Special Recruits Issue
On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Unlearning Exercises: Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning
Afterall Issue 46 (with Mujeres Creando)
The Empty Days Library Logbook
In addition, here are some links shared by members of the K’acha Willaykuna community:
- Articles on Teaching Quechua in ¿Qué Pasa, Ohio State?, vol. 25, no. 2 (Spring 2017) – shared by Michelle Wibblesman)
- A news article on Ojibwe activist Anton Treuer (shared by Mark Stansbery)
- Installation images of Sámi artist Joar Nango’s library installation at the exhibition exhibition Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel: Indigenous Contemporary International currently on view at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. (shared by Richard Fletcher/Minus Plato)
See you at our first Our Unlearning Hour meeting on Friday January 24th and in the meantime send any links you want to share!
Best wishes,
Richard Fletcher