ABSTRACT
The Artist and Academia explores the relationship between artistic and academic ways of knowing. Historically, these have often been presented as opposites; the former characterized as passionate and intuitive and the latter portrayed as systematic and rigorous. Recent scholarship presents a more complex picture. Artistic knowledge demands high levels of skill and rigor, while academic research requires creativity and innovative thinking. This edited collection brings together leading artists and scholars (as well as artist-scholars) to offer a variety of philosophical, educational, experiential, reflexive and imaginative perspectives on the artist and academia. The contributions include in-depth, scholarly discussions on the nature of knowledge and creativity, as well as personal artistic statements from musicians, dancers, actors and writers. Additionally, it explores both the mediational and subversive spaces created by the meeting of artistic and academic traditions. While the book addresses global themes by global writers, its core case study is an educational experiment called the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick in Ireland. Established in 1994, it set out to reconfigure the place of the artist in the context of contemporary higher education. The material is clustered into three parts. Part One and Part Two explore the artist as mediator, educator and subversive in academia. Grounded in close-to-practice research, Part Three concludes the volume with a set of case studies from the Irish World Academy. Artistic and academic knowledge come together in this unique set of pieces to explore the development of more inclusive and imaginative pedagogical values.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |20 pages
Introduction
part I|114 pages
The artist as educator and mediator in academia
chapter 22Essay 2|19 pages
“…to know the place for the first time…”
chapter Essay 3|16 pages
A gallery of hanging thoughts
chapter Essay 6|15 pages
Collaborative knowledge sharing for mind and body
part II|68 pages
The artist as educator and subversive in academia
chapter 136Essay 7|18 pages
The subversive potential of praxis and political emotions in arts academies
chapter Essay 8|16 pages
Protest, subversion, and critical citizenship
chapter Essay 9|22 pages
Contesting and negotiating hegemonic discourses
part III|34 pages
Case study examples of the lived experiences of the artist in academia from the Irish World Academy
part |15 pages
Conclusion