Three key ideas discussed in the text that resonated with you and your interests or wonderings about community engaged arts:
“In these projects, on the other hand, conversations become an integral part of the work itself. It is framed as an active, generative process that can help us speak and imagine beyond the limits of fixed identities, official discourse, and the perceived inevitability of partisan political conflict.”
“These projects require a shift in our understanding of the work of art- a redefinition of aesthetic experience as durational rather than immediate.”
“On the other hand, collective identity is often established through an abstract, generalizing principle (“the nation, the people”) that does as much to repress specific differences as it does to celebrate points of common experience.
Three questions sparked by the content and/or vocabulary of the text:
What is a, “politically coherent community”?
How can we continue to challenge aesthetic experience, conventional perceptions and systems of knowledge by creating work that can exist outside of a more traditional, artistically identifiable space?
How can we manifest work, not just performance art, that evokes a dialogue after and holds people accountable in some way shape or form to participate?
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