Podcast for Tuesday, June 14
Theme: Belonging
Who is welcome? Hospitality and contemporary art
https://soundcloud.com/user-760891605/episode-19
Amid xenophobic challenges to America’s core value of welcoming the tired and the poor, Irina Aristarkhova calls for new forms of hospitality in her engagement with the works of eight international artists. In ARRESTED WELCOME, the first monograph on hospitality in contemporary art, she employs a feminist perspective and asks who, how, and what determines who is worthy of welcome. With a focus on lessons that contemporary artists teach about the potential of hospitality, Aristarkhova looks at Linda Hattendorf’s documentary The Cats of Mirikitani; the Serbian-born installation and performance artist Ana Prvački’s project The Greeting Committee Reports . . . ; American artist Faith Wilding’s performance Waiting; Taiwanese American artist Lee Mingwei’s aesthetics of hospitality; American bioartist Kathy High’s project Embracing Animal; Mithu Sen’s artworks that explore questions of radical hospitality and crossing borders; Pippa Bacca and Silvia Moro’s art project Brides on Tour; and Ken Aptekar’s exhibition Neighbours in Lübeck, Germany.
Aristarkhova is professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is author of Arrested Welcome: Hospitality in Contemporary Art and Hospitality of the Matrix: Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture.
She is joined today by Jorge Lucero, an artist born, raised and educated in Chicago. He is chair and associate professor of art education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Lucero’s books include Mere and Easy: Collage as a Critical Practice in Pedagogy, Teacher as Artist-in-Residence: The Most Radical Form of Expression to Ever Exist, and the forthcoming What Happens at the Intersection of Conceptual Art and Teaching?. Lucero is coeditor of the international journal Visual Arts Research and sits on the editorial boards for the Journal of Social Theory and Art Education, the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, and the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.
This conversation was recorded in February 2021.
More about ARRESTED WELCOME: z.umn.edu/arrestedwelcome
Irina Aristarkhova: stamps.umich.edu/people/detail/irina_aristarkhova
Jorge Lucero: www.jorgelucero.com
An open-access edition of ARRESTED WELCOME is available at manifold.umn.edu/projects/arrested-welcome.
Belonging presentation references from Karen Keifer-Boyd, June 14, 2022
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Diangelo, R. (2018). White fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism. Beacon Press.
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Documentary for Wednesday, June 15
Theme: Sustainability
ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch
A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky.
Third in a trilogy that includes Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013), the film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, are arguing that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century, because of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.
From concrete seawalls in China that now cover 60% of the mainland coast, to the biggest terrestrial machines ever built in Germany, to psychedelic potash mines in Russia’s Ural Mountains, to metal festivals in the closed city of Norilsk, to the devastated Great Barrier Reef in Australia and surreal lithium evaporation ponds in the Atacama desert, the filmmakers have traversed the globe using high end production values and state of the art camera techniques to document evidence and experience of human planetary domination.
At the intersection of art and science, ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch witnesses in an experiential and non-didactic sense a critical moment in geological history — bringing a provocative and unforgettable experience of our species’ breadth and impact.
This documentary can be found on the Studio for Sustainability and Social Action Youtube account. The login information will be provided during Monday’s session.
Directions: Once you log in, you should see a teal and white ‘S’ logo in the right corner. Make sure you are NOT on the S3A channel (green and blue S3A logo). You can change the account by clicking on the logo in the top right corner, selecting ‘switch account’, and changing to the user account. Once on the user page, you will select “Your movies” on the left, and you should see “Anthropocene: The Human Epoch” under the ‘purchased’ tab. If you see a page that says “purchases not available”, you are on the S3A channel (please follow the aforementioned directions to switch account). If you have any trouble accessing the documentary, please send me an email. Please log out immediately after watching the film. Youtube will continue to track your watch history if you remain logged into the account.
Reading for Thursday, June 16
Theme: Justice
Race and Art Education – Amelia M. Kraehe & Joni B. Acuff
Chapter 1: Kraehe, Acuff – 2021 – Understanding Race and Racism in Art Education A Journey
Chapter 2: Kraehe, Acuff – 2021 – Awakening an Abolitionist Mindset in the Art Classroom
‘Race and Art Education,’ a new book by Arizona Art’s Dr. Amelia Kraehe, provides art educators strategies to sustain constructive conversations about race.
The book addresses the pervasiveness of racism and provides art educators with a vocabulary and strategies to sustain constructive conversations about race. These strategies help art teachers dispel stereotypes, and challenge biases and fears of differences in the classroom.
“Understanding the complexities of race in our culture, especially as it relates to educating students of all backgrounds in rural, suburban, and urban school settings, is crucial,” from the authors’ statement. ‘Race is clearly an issue in our society and one that impacts much of what we do as educators. We need knowledge, language, and strategies to assist us as we attempt to address it in our day-to-day professional lives.
“The pervasiveness of racism in the United States implores art educators to build a succinct, explicit vocabulary that helps us speak frankly about the way race guides our work in the field (from pedagogy, curriculum, classroom management, parent interactions, institutional interactions, etc.). Strategies for sustaining constructive conversations about race can help art teachers dispel stereotypes, and challenge biases and fears of differences in the classroom.”
Resources for the Justice presentation can be found here: Art and Justice.June.2002
Reading for Friday, June 17
Theme: Inclusion/Access
“How Architecture Could Help Us Adapt to the Pandemic” by Kim Tingley. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/09/magazine/architecture-covid.html
You can find the article as a PDF here: How Architecture Could Help Us Adapt to the Pandemic
Kim Tingley spoke with Joel Sanders, Hansel Bauman, Mabel O. Wilson and other academics and designers about how architecture could adapt to address issues of public health and universal design in a post-COVID-19 world. “The virus isn’t simply a health crisis; it is also a design problem”.
More about MIXdesign’s COVID Case Study here
The PowerPoint on Disability Studies in Art and Museum Education can be found here: Disability Studies in Art and Museum Education
The PowerPoint on UDL (by the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence) can be found here: UDL_Tobin, Pizzaglia, Woods