Abstract
Art has been used as a tool in many fields as a method to tap into different ways of knowing and learning. It promotes creativity and individual expression by encouraging innovation and by opening up possibilities to different ways of expressing and experiencing. My work looks at the performance art of Guillermo Gómez-Peña as a form of public pedagogy using a/r/tography, an arts-based methodology, to illuminate way art it can be used to enhance the learning experience. This article examine the in-between spaces created in Gómez-Peña’s work as epistemological borderzones underscoring how borders come together in heterogeneity, contradiction, and flux to create emancipatory possibilities that open up spaces for counter-hegemonic epistemologies.
Recommended Citation
Cole, Dana
(2014)
"The Body as Politic: Education and the performance Art of Guillermo Gómez-Peña,"
Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cecr/vol1/iss1/3
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