Expansive creativity is beyond the visual.

Burgoyne, Greig; Leuzzi, Laura

Abstract

Expansive creativity starts with how we navigate language, in its plethora of manifestations and contexts. Increasing hegemonic and unwieldy systems of imposed synchronicities and rationality abound leading to our submergence as opposed to emergence as human beings far less creatives. Symptomatic of an age of rapid obsolescence and distraction, we neither know nor care what is beyond the surface of things. Day to day relations with materials and things is increasingly one of attachment and estrangement, determined by function, enslaved in conformity. Learning to be innovative is driven by the desire to adapt to new demands, whilst simultaneously being pulled apart in that meeting with unknown challenges that transformation of language and being brings about as a result. Expansive creativity denotes an event, not simply an object of matter, but a phenomenological field no less of absence and withdrawal, from place, actions - in effect, resulting in a site that is estranged from all forms, for maker and viewer, student, and teacher alike. This is to say, artworks and by that, creativity may be in, but not of the world.

Citation

BURGOYNE, G. and LEUZZI, L. 2023. Expansive creativity is beyond the visual. In Hurcomb, G., Herring, E., Jackson, J. and Duvallon, V.P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2023 Teaching beyond the curriculum conference: a focus on pedagogy, 15-17 November 2023, Glasgow, UK; Baton Rouge, USA; Wenzhou, China. Architecture Media Politics Society (AMPS) proceedings series, 36.2. Glasgow: AMPS [online], chapter 27, pages 256-263. Available from: https://amps-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Amps-Proceedings-Series-36.2.pdf

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2023 Teaching beyond the curriculum conference: a focus on pedagogy
• Start Date: Nov 15, 2023
• End Date: Nov 17, 2023
• Acceptance Date: May 10, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Jul 23, 2024
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jul 29, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 14, 2024
• Publisher: Architecture Media Politics Society (AMPS)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 256-263
• Series Title: AMPS proceedings series
• Series Number: 36.2
• Series ISSN: 2398-9467
• Chapter Number: 27
• Keywords: Art education; Artistic pedagogy; Creativity; Pedagogy
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2422828
• Publisher URL: https://amps-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Amps-Proceedings-Series-36.2.pdf