Book chapter
Throwing Stones at the Wall: Pedagogical Art and the Immovability of Museums
Pedagogical Art in Activist and Curatorial Practices, pp.203-211
Routledge
2025
DOI: 10.4324/9781003473800-18
Abstract
The following satirical narrative details the execution of a pedagogical and activist artwork at a fictitious American art museum. Told through a multi-voice email exchange, this chapter highlights how the structures and systems that enable galleries to operate get enfolded into an activist, social practice artwork. As a result, the pedagogical aims of the fictive project traced here are eroded like a stone in the sea, shaped into a form that belies the activist aims of the artist, the needs of a community, and even the evaluative metrics of institutional practice. Depending on your experiences, you may read this fictional account and think that I am writing about a work, person or museum you know (I am not) or feel the text is far-fetched and that institutions would never treat an artist in these ways (sadly, they do.) Though none of this is real, all of it is true.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Throwing Stones at the Wall: Pedagogical Art and the Immovability of Museums
- Creators
- Allison Rowe
- Contributors
- Izabel Galliera (Editor)Noni Brynjolson (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Pedagogical Art in Activist and Curatorial Practices, pp.203-211
- Publisher
- Routledge; New York, NY
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003473800-18
- Alternative title
- Pedagogical Art in Activist and Curatorial Practices
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2025
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; School of Art, Art History, and Design; Teaching and Learning
- Record Identifier
- 9984823072502771
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