DEFINITONS of TERMS
COMMUNITY ARTS PRACTICE
Community Arts Practice is an emerging interdisciplinary field promoting art as a tool for community groups to express diverse identities and to explore and take action on social and environmental issues. It emphasizes the collaborative process as much as the product of art-making or event production.
Links:
*De Monte University (UK) – Community Arts Practice Degree
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/humanities/pg/pgd/cap.jsp
*Community Arts Movement in Australia – The Art & Working Life Program
http://www.wwcd.org/action/Australia.html#ART
*Dialetic of Community Arts Practice & Globalization
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/%20archivefiles/2003/06/dialectic_of_co.php%20-%2047k
SERVICE LEARNING
“At their best, service-learning experiences are reciprocally beneficial for both the community and students. For many community organizations, students augment service delivery, meet crucial human needs, and provide a basis for future citizen support. For students, community service is an opportunity to enrich and apply classroom knowledge; explore careers or majors; develop civic and cultural literacy; improve citizenship, develop occupational skills; enhance personal growth and self-image; establish job links; and foster a concern for social problems, which leads to a sense of social responsibility and commitment to public/human service’
Brevard Community College, The Power, excerpted from
Introduction to Service-learning Tool Kit: Reading and Resources for Faculty
Published by Brown University Press, 2003
Links:
*Campus Compact – A national coalition of over 900 college and university presidents who are committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education.
*Artsbridge America – University of California, Irvine
http://www.arts.uci.edu/artsbridge/
*Artsbridge America – University of California, Berkeley
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/bca/artsbridge.html
*Service Learning and the Arts – A Partnership between the J. Paul Getty Trust and the California State University System:
http://www.calstate.edu/csl/meetings/research_conference.shtml
*Florida Learn & Serve: 4th Annual Service Learning & Arts Conference
http://www.fsu.edu/~flserve/arts_conference/index.html
RELATIONAL AESTHETICS & TECHNIQUE
Relational Art is an emerging movement in art identified by Nicolas Bourriaud, a French philosopher, who recognized a growing number of contemporary artists used performative and interactive techniques that rely on the responses of others: pedestrians, shoppers, browsers—the casual observer-turned-participant. As an art critic, Bourriaud has reviewed many internationally renowned exhibitions and performances. Over the course of writing editorials for the French magazine Documents sur l’Art, Bourriaud came to term what he was seeing—more accurately, experiencing—as a movement in Relational Art.
"Bourriaud's ... theoretical leaning, summarized as 'relational art,' gives a new interpretation of the aesthetic object. The object is no longer materially or conceptually defined, but relationally. ‘What do relations eventually create? Relations to the artistic work, institutions and so on? - context.’” Art Magazine Boiler #1, 1999
*Quoted from the Playlist Context Weblog:
http://straddle3.net/context/03/en/2004_02_10.html on August 16, 2004.
Links:
Article: Relational Aesthetics: Why It makes so Much Sense
Interview: ArtForum: Public Realtions and Nicolas Bourriaud
Creativity Machine: Blog discussion about “relational aesthetics”
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~burgess/2005/03/20/relational-aesthetics/
