What is it about?
An urgent and timely approach to living art differently is explored in this book that documents numerous activities by artists, collaborators and others, who are embracing the outdoors as a generative environment outside the confines of traditional art institutions.
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Why is it important?
Outdoor School proposes slowing down and stepping outside to cultivate a differently learned and practiced temporal experience from the dominant paradigm. In conjunction with the time-altering mandates of an ongoing global pandemic, this realignment—this grounding—feels urgent and timely.
Perspectives
In the quickly moving and decentering experiences of contemporary life (how many academic emails have I received lately talking about the need to ‘pivot’?) this book arrived on my doorstop as a revelation. It is both a manual for “How to Make Art at the End of the World,” as Natalie Loveless titled her passionate advocacy of research-creation, and an antidote for the soul-crushing joylessness and fear that attends contemporary media and politics.
Leah Modigliani
Temple University
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This page is a summary of: Outdoor School: Contemporary Environmental Art, Diane Borsato and Amish Morrell (Eds), Journal of Curatorial Studies, April 2022, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/jcs_00065_5.
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