Spectacle Pedagogy: Art, Politics, and Visual Culture

176 Pages·2008·1.721 MB·English

by  Charles R. Garoian, Yvonne M. Gaudelius

SPECTACLE
PEDAGOGY
Art, Politics, and Visual Culture
Charles R. Garoian and Yvonne M. Gaudelius
Spectacle Pedagogy

Spectacle Pedagogy
Art, Politics, and Visual Culture
Charles R. Garoian
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Yvonne M. Gaudelius
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Essays: Collage Fragments
One. The Embodied Pedagogy of War 7
Two. The Spectacle of Visual Culture 23
Three. The Impossible Task as Ecological Imperative 41
Four. Art Education in the Silent Gaps of
Visual Culture 63
Five. Misfit Pedagogy of Visual Culture: A Depraved
Obsession with Pictures 73
Six. Curriculum and Pedagogy as Collage Narrative 89
Seven. The Spectre of Visual Culture and the
Hauntology of Collage 99
Eight. The Dis-eased Pedagogy of Disaster Tourism 119
Notes 141
References 145
Index 157
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Illustrations
Cover Photo Naum June Paik, TV Buddha, 1974
2.1 Krzysztof Wodiczko, The Mouthpiece, 2003 35
3.1 Goat Island, The Sea & Poison, 2000 45
4.1 Alexandra Sullivan, and i swore i wouldn’t
scream..., 2004 65
4.2 Alexandra Sullivan, and i swore i wouldn’t
scream...(detail), 2004 66
4.3 Cristin Millett, Teatro Anatomico, 2004 69
4.4 Cristin Millett, Teatro Anatomico, (detail) 2004 70
5.1 Salah Edine Sallat, Mural, 2004 83
5.2 James Kesterke, Milking Metaphors, 1999 83
6.1 Naum June Paik, TV Buddha, 1974 95
7.1 Charles Garoian, hyper/ventilation, 2005 101
7.2 Stacy Levy, Julie Bargmann, Robert Deason,
and T. Allan Comp, project plan (detail),
Acid Mine Drainage & Art, Project for
Vintondale, 1995–2003 105
7.3 Stacy Levy, Julie Bargmann, Robert Deason, and
T. Allan Comp. Aerial view, Acid Mine
Drainage & Art, Project forVintondale, 1995–2003 106
7.4 David Young, Frequency and Flow, 2004 112
7.5 David Young, Frequency and Flow (detail), 2004 113
7.6 Christian Boltanski, The Missing House (detail), 1990 116
8.1 Bill Viola, Going Forth By Day: “The Deluge,”
2002a 135
8.2 Bill Viola, Going Forth By Day: “The Deluge,”
2002b 136
8.3 Bill Viola, Going Forth By Day: “The Deluge,”
2002c 137
8.4 Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange, 1971 140
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Acknowledgments
With these heartfelt words we would like to thank those who
inspired, generously supported, and assisted us during the
writing of this book. In particular, we thank Richard (Dick)
Durst, President of Baldwin Wallace College and former Dean of
the College of Arts and Architecture at The Pennsylvania State
University who urged us to complete it in spite of our full time
jobs as university administrators.
Our writing and teaching would not have been possible with-
out the inspiration provided by the artists, theorists, and educa-
tors whose images, ideas, and teachings appear throughout the
pages of this book. Their cultural work has enabled us to under-
stand the role of art and pedagogy as important aspects of critical
citizenship within contemporary culture.
The College of Arts and Architecture and the School of
Visual Arts at Penn State provided funding support for us to
present versions of some of these essays at national and interna-
tional conferences. Additionally, the college financially sup-
ported the final stages of the manuscript through the office of
Associate Dean Gunalan Nadarajan.
We acknowledge the audiences who attended our conference
sessions and engaged us in dialogue by raising important ques-
tions and providing insightful comments that helped us refine
our arguments.
The following individuals and agencies gave permission to
publish the images included in this book: artists James Kesterke,
StacyLevy,CristinMillett,AlexandraSullivan,andDavidYoung;
artists Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson of the Goat Island col-
lective; artist and photographer Rob Martin; photographer
Claude Giger; artist Krzysztof Wodiczko and archivist Stephanie
Joson of Galerie Lelong in New York City; Hetty Wessels,
archivist in the Reproduction Department of The Stedelijk
Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; artist Bill Viola and
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