"This month, we are very glad to have our first guest-edited issue of e-flux journal care
of Irit Rogoff, whose activities we have followed with great interest
over the years, drawn to her insights into the potentialities of
education unbounded. Already
a number of contributions to the journal in its first year (those of
Tom Holert, Luis Camnitzer, and Dieter Lesage, in addition to Rogoff's
own immensely influential text, "Turning") have surveyed current
conditions and possible reformulations of educational structures. But
at a time when even the status quo of many educational institutions is
threatened by budget cuts, tuition hikes, and measures taken to
standardize and regiment learning (see for instance the recent protests
throughout the University of California system or the Bologna Process
in general), and the art world increasingly seems to absorb an
"educational turn" as a mannerist curiosity, it becomes all the more
important to consider how forms of learning and exchange, of thinking
and making, can take place within flexible, temporary, unstable
configurations—which may or may not be educational or
instructive—unrestricted by measurable outcomes or predetermined
expectations."
Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Info + download: http://e-flux.com/journal/issue/14