Ivanova, Ellie J.

Kalin, Nadine M.

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Studious Play in Art Education as ArchiveNadine M. Kalin, Ellie J. IvanovaUniversity of North Texas, United States of AmericaAbstractThis presentation commences from the premise that there is no one right wayto do art education. Such a framing of the field goes against art educationalhistory and mandates throwing them into a fictive potentiality while offeringup the so-called ‘ways’ of art education as toys for re-creation through study.These modes are informed by education-as-art methods including the creativere-use of educationally-imbued contexts and ephemera such as archives, li-braries, institutional spaces, curricular materials, books, and objects. Thisenticement was posed to a graduate seminar occurring within the context of aruinous and incomplete archive. Archive as concept and material traditionallysignals authority as a collection of largely uncontested and distanced knowl-edge to be transmitted through teaching, access, and bowing to the impliedpower contained within archival objects. Along with this hegemonic overlay,any archive is also always limited, displaced, and open to the excavation ofhistory in the present as potentially participatory, ephemeral, idiosyncratic,and profane. We share attempts at suspending the archive’s predetermineduse value, throwing the lot into an altered possibility. In lieu of consuming alinear history implied by the archive, we are bringing these authoritative ob-1003 Synnyt / Origins | 2 / 2019 | Abstractsjects to life through a form of studious play. Relying on Agambenian notionsof study, play, im-potentiality, and counter-apparatus, we lay out how art ed-ucation might be suspended through playful study and connecting that whichhas yet to be connected. Here, art education is no longer art education, butwhatever we might imagine it to be without predetermined destinations.KeywordsArchive, Art education, Agamben, Study.1004 Synnyt / Origins | 2 / 2019 | Abstracts

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