Update from IDSVA third-year student Jennifer Rissler, Interim Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs, San Francisco Art Institute.
“At the recent Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), eleven Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) students participated in pioneering dialogue about the process and study of art. Four of us led the panel discussion “Artistic Practice and Limitations: toward a Philosophical Reexamination.”
As outlier “artist-philosophers,” we presented views of artistic practice in opposition to many art historical approaches. Artists work within interstitial domains, at the peripheries, margins, and boundaries of both formal and conceptual methodologies. Yet scholarship often fails to acknowledge philosophical discourses initiated by artists. Together, we reexamined both the function of boundaries and limits within artistic practice and the autonomy of the art object.
We suggested the following alternative artistic-philosophical methodologies: Orgasm as poetic resistance; the dialectical boundaries of suicide; and plasticity and play in Lucio Fontana’s art and theory.
But I relate all this as one example of the incredibly exciting and important conversations and debates IDSVA students are engaged with—among ourselves and with our distinguished faculty, at conferences and seminars here in the U.S. and around the world, and in our daily lives as practicing artists, teachers, and creative thinkers.”
Join these pioneering conversations by applying to IDSVA’s low-residency PhD program. Admissions deadline for May 2017 enrollment is January 31, 2017. Please email info@idsva.edu or visit IDSVA’s admissions page for information about the application process.
