Between critical practice and visitor services. Results of a research project / edited by Carmen Mörsch

At a crossroads of four discourses Documenta 12 gallery education in between affirmation, reproduction, deconstruction, and transformation / Carmen Mörsch -- The aspect of dance in gallery education / Deniz Sözen -- Palm Groves. Gallery education as constitutive of a public sphere / Alexander Henschel -- Gallery education by agreement, or establishing "Hazardous bodies" / Stepahn Fürstenberg and Henrike Plegge -- Performing essentialism at Documenta 12 / Hansel Sato -- Pants pulled down twice / Nora Landkammer -- This could get nasty... Playful gallery education for school groups at Documenta 12 / Sara Hossein -- Leveling the playing field, or where to go with my expert role? / Teresa Distelberger -- Productive speech moments reflections on manners of speech in gallery education and on what makes sense / Anna Schürch -- What Am I allowed to say these days? Thoughts on a non-normative and non-racist gallery education practice / Kea Wienand -- On dropping my pants and underpants / Stephan Fürstenberg -- Pitfalls/Falling out of roles. On roles prescribed for Gallery educators, their gender codification and potential tactics to navigate them / Nora Landkammer -- The -impossible- wish for immediate gallery education / Alexander Henschel -- On playing back and recording -- Tina Oberleitner -- Having a routine -breaking routines- preserving personal resources, reflections on everyday work in gallery education at Documenta 12 / Kathrin Nölle -- The fragment guiding metaphor for modernity and indicator of discusive formations in gallery education / Annika Hossain -- Does the "Migration of form" make art more accessible? Perceptions and assessments of Documenta 12 y the Lay and expert public / Silke Ballath -- To stand and stand for / Alexander Henschel -- Offering a view of the Gaze. The way a presentational tool presented Itself / Julia Ziegenbein -- Body attitude(s). The performative in the mediation of performance art-fieldwork at Documenta 12 / Barbara Campaner -- "You could have told us right away the artist is gay". Queer aspects of art and gallery education at Documenta 12 / Sandra Ortmann -- Taking a look or looking away / Simone Wiegand -- Interfaces and missed connections / Stephan Fürstenberg and Henrike Plegge -- Abouth how we failed to write a Manifesto and why we still need one/ Teresa Distelberger ans Nora Landkammer -- "And that is why we also think that the conversation has to be without word" Documenta 1 and the Rejection of Education -- Andrea Hubin -- Exhibition as medium . Education at documenta 12 / Ruth Noack -- Breaking the rules. Education and post-colonialism / María do Mar Castro Varela and Nikita Dhawan -- Glossary -- Artwork descriptions -- Selected bibliography -- Authors -- Photograph credits -- Acknowledgments