Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2013
Format
application/pdf
Keywords
Access Denied, book, Photorealism, arts-based research, A/r/tography, ready-made, art and art history, displacement, ritual, concept, inaccessible, paper, happening, reproduction, paradox, bicultural, identity
Abstract
A book written in a foreign language and migrated to the US along with its author, an art historian, finds a new communicative dimension by becoming a ready-made for art making purposes. Starting with an introduction explaining the genesis of the collaborative project Access Denied, this article focuses on one of the series’ artworks, namely a video-happening, by exploring its genesis, development, and outcomes. Staged during the day of finals in an advanced art history seminar, the experiment provided an embodied artistic experience and some reflections on art history course content in the debate that followed. The video happening became a basis for further reflection in this essay on the role of performance in stimulating arts-based research at the interstices between biography and scholarly inquiry, between art and art history, between modernism and postmodernism, between object and action, and between creation and destruction as the two opposite poles in modern creativity.
Pages
24
Publisher
International Journal of Education & the Arts
Type
text
Language
en
Rights
Copyright 2013 Leda Cempellin
Recommended Citation
Cempellin, Leda. "Embodying Art and Art History: An Experiment with a Class Video Happening for the Series 'Access Denied.'" International Journal of Education & the Arts, vol. 14, no.9 (June 2013): 1-24.
Comments
Cempellin, Leda. "Embodying Art and Art History: An Experiment with a Class
Video Happening for the Series 'Access Denied.'" International Journal of Education
& the Arts, vol. 14, no.9 (June 2013): 1-24.