Collection of Knowledge: Course of Study

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Degen and Skurvida elaborate on “collections” as a construction of discourses in various educational frameworks within the MENASA region and beyond. They scrutinize the activities and behaviors of various art departments, foreign university outposts, artists’ organizations, and museums. More specifically, they question these educational agent’s selective presentation and dissemination of knowledge via ventures abroad (such as the Field Study course led by New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology). Inviting critique, feedback, and dialogue, their presentation ponders the balance between the location of a culture and its communication outside its immediate field of reference. How can art ecosystems be represented without submitting to dominant mechanisms of knowledge production?