The Article, The Turn to Contemporary Art: A Potentiality for Thinking Art Education Differently, expands on Dewey’s Art as Experience theories, and speaks on the shift toward emphasizing “experience” in contemporary art how to rethink Art Education keeping experience at the forefront. The article presents several examples of artist works and installations that are best understood by experiencing them. The descriptions alone are quite complicated and conceptual, and I had difficulty trying to think of how to translate these examples for the classroom. Because showing images with description may not capture these types of works, how do we convey the meaning in a way the student will be interested? I think that making a visit to a museum or art gallery would be ideal for starting this conversation, so we can all “experience” the experience. If we cannot experience a work as a class how do we deliver it’s meaning without experiencing it? Perhaps videos of more complicated instillations can be shown instead of describing these pieces?
The concept of experiential art made me think of the work of the work of James Turell. His work is obviously best understood and maybe only understood and enjoyed in real life but if I had to talk about his work, a video such as this would be helpful to show.
