"Reads"

I was reading an article in "Inside Higher Education" today about this guy who came up with a wonderful idea. As part of his master degree work, he began taking literature to the streets. He would print poetry that he or others wrote, and print them and cut them out, and hang them on buses, billboards, street signs, store windows, on the sides of abandoned buildings in some areas of Baltimore. His graduate seminare assingment was to expand the idea of what a book is. This is an article from Poets and Writers that gives more information. Here is the link: http://www.pw.org/content/taking_poetry_public

It is fascinating what people are doing out there.



I found this article at a website titled the Second International Conference on Arts. Learning By Mistake: Art, Transgression, Laughter
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Dr Claire Pajaczkowska
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Art and science progress through the exploration of the 'category error'. Using Freud's concept of humour as the product of category substitution, and the concept of 'paradigm' proposed by the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, I suggest that the avant garde artist advances by taking the risk of making 'mistakes' that will either offend or delight the spectator. Understanding how art is learned and how art progresses enables us to understand that mistakes are not the opposite of truth but are the means to establish it. Other subjects and other pedagog Art and science progress through the exploration of the 'category error'. Using Freud's concept of humor as the product of category substitution, and the concept of 'paradigm' proposed by the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, I suggest that the avant garde artist advances by taking the risk of making 'mistakes' that will either offend or delight the spectator. Understanding how art is learned and how art progresses enables us to understand that mistakes are not the opposite of truth but are the means to establish it. Other subjects and other pedagogies have much to learn from art and artists. By discussing art works from the Documenta exhibition I will demonstrate how this process works
Keywords: Mistakes, Truth, Humour, Science, Category Error, Pradigm shift, Freud, Kuhn, Avant Garde.
Stream: Meaning and Representation
Presentation Type: 30 minute Paper Presentation in English
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I am learning to laugh at myself and I am seeing that doing so gives me so much freedom. I don't have to take myself so seriously. I am free to laugh, cry, curse, and look back and see it all as silly or not. For some reason, we humans thought that mistakes mean that they are "stakes" that we have to be tied to the rest of our lives. We can change and be who we want to be. No one can define or limit us but we ourselves.