John Baldacchino

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John Baldacchino is Professor of Art and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he specializes in art, philosophy, and education. He was faculty at Columbia University in New York and the universities of Warwick, Dundee, Falmouth, and Robert Gordon in Britain. He is the author of fifteen books, which include Easels of Utopia (1998/2018), Avant-Nostalgia (2001). Education Beyond Education (2009); Makings of the Sea (2010), Art’s Way Out (2012), John Dewey (2014), Art as Unlearning (2019), Educing Ivan Illich (2020) and Lessons of Belonging (2023). A new volume, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Continental Philosophy of Education (with Herner Saeverot) is forthcoming in 2023.

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  • The sea as a site of curation: Reflections on aesthetics education (2023) author(s): John Baldacchino published in: HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
    With the sea as a “site” of curation, a thalassic approach (as that which belongs to the sea), facilitates a showing of those things that converge upon the contingency of daily living. The case for aesthetics is pedagogical, inasmuch as it provides us with a strategy for exiting into the wider world as we move outside the walls of a building (and that of Bildung). Exiting also implies rejecting all those institutionalized constraints that education’s edificial approach brings to learning. Here, in its aporetic nature, art is one of those few human actions which allow us to articulate and enact a sense of being both strangers and homecomers in our own world. In other words, this is a form of curation that is claimed through the autonomy that it portends.
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