Floating Projects Collective 句點

- Jolene Mok

"Untitled" (2010, Jolene Mok)

What to learn? What not to learn? We have to learn how to learn. What if we don’t want to learn but, still, we have to learn? Do we learn if we don’t want to learn?

All of the above are the questions I had in mind when I started this visual ethnographic project.

To me, learning is always a problematic process. Apart from standard schooling, I was lucky to have had the chance to learn ballet, squash, table tennis and piano-playing in my childhood years. I had been, continuously, learning all these skills for more or less 10 years. However, for the past decade, I have not kept any of these practices and have, in fact, avoided contact with any of them.

With all the time I spent, all …

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