Residency-Juxtaposition-Leslie-3hrs
Session Canceled
Community Based Practice/Community Reflection
Although class was canceled today, my art in community class got me thinking about teaching and what it is I want to teach specifically and how I want to teach it. In this class I’ve been thinking a lot about healing and different ways of healing through art.
These are some notes I took on the subject:
In terms of art as a mode of healing, participatory art can be immaterial or have intangibility. The intangibility of participatory art means it can never be completely “documented” or “conserved” but it can be expressed or reenacted.
I want to be a teacher that engages in social practice work since I really enjoy listening and getting to know others and trying to be understanding. I want to be able to learn from the way others respond to how information is presented to them since I would like to—one day, be able to create a school or organization of my own where the students are learning what they feel they need to in order to prepare for being out in the world. I’m thinking about Healing, Teaching, Social work, and Art Making occupying the same space.
Important questions I’m asking myself:
Who’s my community?
What do they need/want?
What does it take to be a leader?
What are you responsible for?
Is my purpose to create long lasting change?
Immediate change?
Helping people build towards an eventual change?