Arts Programming for the Anthropocene by Gilbert Bill;Cox Anicca; & Anicca Cox & Erika Osborne

Author:Gilbert, Bill;Cox, Anicca; & Anicca Cox & Erika Osborne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2018-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

John Reid speaks to the power of place-based education and the effect it has on students’ artistic production:

The value of it is multifold, I think. Firstly, what the program does, mainly by virtue of choosing its field locations very carefully, is provide a really high-quality sensory experience for artists. So, the ground you walk on is rich in visual detail. You look around, there’s things happening, often of real aesthetic quality in terms of the forms of the landscape – breathtaking views, beautiful details in the vegetation. In urban environments, there is formally fantastic industry and pace of life and so on. So, the field program provides a very rich stimulus, a sensory stimulus for creative production. That serves artists and their creative objectives. And certainly, within an educational context, it complements the curriculum really well …

So, if you look at the course of the FS program, participating students were very well informed about a particular location during a formative stage of their creative work. And a lot of them have continued. The field experience has become a part of their practice over a long period of time …

The magic is that it enables artists to produce artwork that is authentic. Its value is that people are making art in response to how the world is today. It provides that opportunity for people to make art from the here and now and from a place.

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