Second MST Graduate Student Cafe Friday April 23
Published: 2021-04-20
Talk: The Pedagogy of Form: 20th Century Art and Ecological Ethics
Presenter: NATALIE LOVELESS, University of Alberta, Department of Art and Design
Why does form matter? Why, given the urgency of the contemporary moment, attend to artistic form at all? This talk will track debates on artistic form in the long 20th century, attending to both the politics and pedagogies of form, in order to propose a distinction between art on ecology and art that is formed ecologically. Giving theoretical and art historical background for this distinction, this talk argues for ecological ethics that take the question of aesthetic form seriously in the context of art on -- and in -- the Anthropocene.
Date: January 17, 2020
Time: 12-2 PM (Talk from 12-1PM; Discussion from 1-2PM)
Location: Arts-Based Research Studio, 4-104 Education North, University of Alberta
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Natalie S. Loveless is an associate professor in the department of Art and Design (History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture) at the University of Alberta, where she also directs the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory. Loveless is the author of How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation (2019, Duke University Press), which examines debates surrounding research-creation and its institutionalization, paying particular attention to what it means – and why it matters – to make and teach art research-creationally in the North American university today