CALL FOR PAPERS:
CAA 2007 Annual Meeting, New York City, 14-17 February 2007

Art and Education at the End of the Age of Critique

My students (not all of them, but a significant enough portion) have
informed me that for them the age of "critique" is over and that any
attempt at "consistency" is meaningless." When prodded they suggest that
we can now add the critique of our cultural constructs to the junkyard of
the Western culture's utopian projects. They instead, envision art in all
its forms as existing as an economy of surplus whose, ultimate worth is as
a means by which to exercise their fractured subjectivity. In contrast,
those who hold to the notion of critique, resistance and analysis these
students tend to be characterized as self-indulgent, de-centered, and
desensitized – that is alienated and resigned. However, is this actually
the case? The question addressed by this panel is; are their antipathy and
ambivalence towards all criteria or notions of judgment a consequence of
the very ideologies that are promoted by those committed to critique. In
the face of contemporary conditions, is it time, we set about to review
our own values and assumptions?

Send Proposals to:
Mail to Saul Ostrow, Chair, Visual Arts and Technologies, The Cleveland
Institute of Art, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, Oh. 44106

Questions/queries to sostrowgate.cia.edu

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS May 15.