Extra-Ordinary reflects on precarious academic labour in artistic education from various perspectives. Drawing from theory, activism and individual and collective experience, the project analyses socio-economic and pedagogical conditions in the university context, which combine with the already-debilitated circumstances of creative practice in all disciplines. The collapse of communities of knowledge is now understood as deliberate institutional policy. Mentorship, the ideal of meaningful dialogue between teachers and students, has been reduced to the terms of monetised, time-controlled exchange agreements.