'Make an Invisible Artwork': Instructions for a pedagogy of visibility/invisibility. Issue 3 (1st September 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Desai, Dipti
• Is Part Of: Visual inquiry. Volume 3:Issue 3(2014)
• Page Start: 347
• Page End: 357
• Publication Date: 2014-09-01
• Subjects: Art appreciation -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Art -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 707.1041
• DOI: 10.1386/vi.3.3.347_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2045-5879

Abstract

In this reflective essay, I draw on my experience as the Director of the art+education programmes at New York University to explore what happens if we shift art education practices from primarily an object based understanding of art that is unconnected to our daily lives to one where art is a living form that makes things happen. By focusing on an art-as-instruction exhibition where the audience enacts the instructions, I open a discussion on the notion of visibility and invisibility in art education practices, in the hope of rethinking the ways we train art teachers.