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The Hallucinated
Community College of the Mobile Academy
The Blackmarket for Usefull Knowledge and Non-Knowledge is a temporary
production and showroom in which narrative formats of knowledge
mediation will be tried out and presented. Between 12 to 100 individual
tables are occupied by experts (natural scientists, craftsmen, artists,
philosophers, and neighbours) who are being invited to offer a portion
of their knowledge that can be told and learned in 30 minutes. The
audience (rather a customer on this evening) will be able to book
an expert and his or her offer of knowledge for a half-hour, and
to acquire this knowledge or ability in a mutual dialogue. Furthermore,
the audience can choose among several experts/knowledge service
personnel (12 to 120) and get checked in for several half-hour conversations.
In this way, a hallucinated community college will be produced in
which learning and unlearning, knowledge and non-knowledge, and
strategies of living and surviving will change ownership in a non-institutional
way. The transfer of knowledge as a communicative and performative
act will become a collectivly, whispered story of knowledge on this
night, all of this taking place in the theater, the originary location
of public debate.
The 21. Century is regarded as the age of Information, in which
knowledge takes the part of an economical, political and cultural
resource. The idea
of knowledge as a continually growing and spontaneously retrievable
entity mhowever, does not take into account the performative character
of knowledge
nor does it acknowledge its borders or the radical changes that
the idea has experienced throughout history. Knowledge - it seems
- needs to be seen as a
hybrid concept. As a form of storage it works with principles of
representation, discourse, and archive. As a form of performance
it use techniques, practices, and experiences in/of the body of
the learning individual. Finally knowledge appears as mirror-image
of its seeming opposite: ignorance and belief. These two have to
be acknowledged as constitutive parts and imaginary borders of the
field of knowledge in order
to reflect their importance in the production and distribution of
knowledge. They make clear that we can encounter knowledge only
- as Dietmar Kamper claims - as virtuoso awareness, repetition and
dreams.
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