Edited by Tim Doud, Zoë Charlton
Contributors Lauren Frances Adams, Jordan Amirkhani, Kenneth Bailey, Leonhard “Barto” Bartolomeus, Michele Carlson, Michael Ray Charles, Zoë Charlton, George Ciscle, Daniel Coleman, Roz Crews, Tony Cruz Pabón, Joseph Cuillier III, Maria del Carmen Montoya, Jen Delos Reyes, Wendy DesChene, Dan Devening, Stephanie Dinkins, Tim Doud, Marcellina Dwi Kencana Putri, Noah Fischer, Bill Gaskins, Ken Gonzales-Day, Alexis Granwell, Pablo Guardiola, Heather Hart, Janelle Iglesias, Lisa Iglesias, Susan Jahoda, Joseph Kunkel, Rudy Lemcke, Whitney Mashburn, Jaimes Mayhew, Ryan McCartney, Elliott P. Montgomery, Patricia Nguyễn, Carmen Papalia, Shani Peters, farid rakun, Lisi Raskin, Christopher Robbins, George Scheer, Jeff Schmuki, Alexandria Smith, Tina Takemoto, Jina Valentine, Antoine Williams, Risë Wilson, Caroline Woolard
Broad in scope, Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy, and Purpose presents an overview of the different paths taken by artists and artist collectives as they navigate their way from formative experiences into pedagogy. Focusing on the realms in- and outside the academy (the places and persons involved in post-secondary education) and the multiple forms and functions of pedagogy (practices of learning and instruction), the contributions in this volume engage individual and collective artistic practices as they adapt to meet the factors and historical conditions of the people and communities they serve through solidarity, equity, and creativity.
With this critically, historicist approach in mind, the contributions in Out of Place historicize, study, critique, revise, reframe, and question the academy, its operations and exclusions. The extensive range of contributions, emphasizing community-oriented projects both inside and outside the United States, is grouped into three overarching categories: artists who work in academic institutions but whose social and pedagogical engagement extends beyond the walls of the academy; artists who engage in pedagogical initiatives or forms of institutional critique that were established outside of an art school or university setting; and artist–scholars who are doing transformative and inter/transdisciplinary work within their respective institutions.
Collectives and project represented in Out of Place comprise Art Practical, Axis Lab, BFAMFAPhD, Beta-Local, Black Lunch Table Project, The Black School, The Center for Undisciplined Research, Devening Projects, ds4si, Elsewhere, Ghana ThinkTank, Gudskul, The Icebox Project Space, Las Hermanas Iglesias, The Laundromat Project, Occupy Museums, Peebls, PlatBot Genetics, Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts, Related Tactics, Side by Side, ‘sindikit, Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative, and Tiger Strikes Asteriod.