Performance Art in Practice
Pedagogical Approaches
Aapo Kustaa Korkeaoja, Aapo Kustaa Korkeaoja, Annette Arlander, Tero Nauha
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Performance Art in Practice
Pedagogical Approaches
Aapo Kustaa Korkeaoja, Aapo Kustaa Korkeaoja, Annette Arlander, Tero Nauha
Información del libro
Performance Art in practice – pedagogical approaches opens up a variety of philosophies that explore, explain and challenge Performance art and introduces a range of practices used in higher level education. The book is a collection of nine independent essays. All the writers have several years of practice as artists, curators, teachers, professors, researchers and in establishing performance art education in Finland. Theessays explain, challenge and deconstruct performance art from various angles: the body as a tool and abase of identity, self as material, pedagogic acts of dissidence, challenging societal questions withoutpoliticing art, building sustainable artwork based on emotions, intuition and research, using Fluxus scores incontemporary practices etc. are all topics dealt by the writers of Performance Art in practice – pedagogicalapproaches. The essays are written from a practical point of view: how do we concretely teach performance art, whyhave we chosen these ways and what are the outcomes. Teaching the experimental art form, that doesn'twear a uniform and relies on ever changing time and space isn't all evident. Deconstructing performance artand reconstructing pedagogy springs out ideas that are relevant also elsewhere in the contemporarysociety. The book challenges art school institutions: Individuality bound to collegiality, fruitful dialogue that bases ontrust and sharing with a sociologically and politically challenging curricula come out in texts written by AapoKorkeaoja, Eero Yli-Vakkuri, Jussi Matilainen, Pia Lindy and Tuomas Laitinen that refer to the remotecountryside campus of SAMK Kankaanpää school of art. More urban perspective with philosophies, research interests and pedagogic practices at The University of Arts Helsinki are opened up by Tero Nauha, Annette Arlander, Pilvi Porkola and Leena Kela in their essays.