The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art : Embodied Research and Practice

__Uses autobiographical and cultural narratives related to art research and practice to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among learners’ own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others.__By beginning each chapter of __The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art__ with an autobiographical assemblage of personal memory and cultural history, Charles R. Garoian creates a differential, prosthetic space. Within these spaces are the particularities of his own lived experiences as an artist and educator, as well as those of the artists, educators, critics, historians, and theorists whose research and creative scholarship he invokes—coexisting and coextending in manifold ways. Garoian suggests that a contiguous positioning of differential narratives within the space of art research and practice constitutes prosthetic pedagogy, enabling learners to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among their own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others. Such robust relationality of cultural differences and peculiarities brings about interminable newness to learners’ understanding of the other, which challenges the intellectual closure, reductionism, and immutability of academic, institutional, and corporate power The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art: Embodied Research and Practice 1 The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art: Embodied Research and Practice 4 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Acknowledgments 12 Chapter One: Introduction: The Prosthetic Space of Art 14 Chapter Two: Verge of Collapse: The Pros/thesis of Art Research 36 Chapter Three: The Prosthetic Pedagogy of the Ignorant Schoolmaster 54 Chapter Four: Precarious Leanings: The Prosthetic Research of Play in Art 70 Chapter Five: The Anxiety of Disequilibrium in the Museum 94 Chapter Six: Drawing Blinds: Art Practice as Prosthetic Visuality 112 Chapter Seven: Art‐In‐The‐Flesh: The Materiality of Sensation and Embodiment 130 Chapter Eight: Art Research and Practice As Deleuzoguattarian Embodiment: (In collaboration with Joseph Julian Jr., MD) 148 Notes 176 References 184 Index 194

Uses autobiographical and cultural narratives related to art research and practice to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among learners’ own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others.

This book uses autobiographical and cultural narratives related to art research and practice to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among learners' own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others