SPECTACLE PEDAGOGY Art, Politics, and Visual Culture Charles R. Garoian and Yvonne M. Gaudelius Spectacle Pedagogy Spectacle Pedagogy Art, Politics, and Visual Culture Charles R. Garoian and Yvonne M. Gaudelius STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS Publishedby StateUniversityofNewYorkPress,Albany ©2008StateUniversityofNewYork Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Nopartofthisbookmaybeusedorreproducedinanymannerwhatsoever withoutwrittenpermission.Nopartofthisbookmaybestoredinaretrieval systemortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeansincludingelectronic, electrostatic,magnetictape,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwisewithoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofthepublisher. Forinformation,contactStateUniversityofNewYorkPress,Albany,NY www.sunypress.edu ProductionbyMarilynP.Semerad MarketingbySusanM.Petrie LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Garoian,CharlesR.,1943– Spectaclepedagogy:art,politics,andvisualculture/CharlesR.Garoian, YvonneM.Gaudelius. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978–0–7914–7385–6(hardcover:alk.paper) ISBN978–0–7914–7386–3(pbk.:alk.paper) 1. Artandpopularculture. 2. Artandsociety. 3. Massmedia— Socialaspects. I. Gaudelius,Yvonne II. Title. N72.S6G3752008 700.1’03—dc22 2007024992 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Essays: Collage Fragments One. The Embodied Pedagogy of War 7 Two. The Spectacle of Visual Culture 23 Three. The Impossible Task as Ecological Imperative 41 Four. Art Education in the Silent Gaps of Visual Culture 63 Five. Misfit Pedagogy of Visual Culture: A Depraved Obsession with Pictures 73 Six. Curriculum and Pedagogy as Collage Narrative 89 Seven. The Spectre of Visual Culture and the Hauntology of Collage 99 Eight. The Dis-eased Pedagogy of Disaster Tourism 119 Notes 141 References 145 Index 157 v Illustrations Cover Photo Naum June Paik, TV Buddha, 1974 2.1 Krzysztof Wodiczko, The Mouthpiece, 2003 35 3.1 Goat Island, The Sea & Poison, 2000 45 4.1 Alexandra Sullivan, and i swore i wouldn’t scream..., 2004 65 4.2 Alexandra Sullivan, and i swore i wouldn’t scream...(detail), 2004 66 4.3 Cristin Millett, Teatro Anatomico, 2004 69 4.4 Cristin Millett, Teatro Anatomico, (detail) 2004 70 5.1 Salah Edine Sallat, Mural, 2004 83 5.2 James Kesterke, Milking Metaphors, 1999 83 6.1 Naum June Paik, TV Buddha, 1974 95 7.1 Charles Garoian, hyper/ventilation, 2005 101 7.2 Stacy Levy, Julie Bargmann, Robert Deason, and T. Allan Comp, project plan (detail), Acid Mine Drainage & Art, Project for Vintondale, 1995–2003 105 7.3 Stacy Levy, Julie Bargmann, Robert Deason, and T. Allan Comp. Aerial view, Acid Mine Drainage & Art, Project forVintondale, 1995–2003 106 7.4 David Young, Frequency and Flow, 2004 112 7.5 David Young, Frequency and Flow (detail), 2004 113 7.6 Christian Boltanski, The Missing House (detail), 1990 116 8.1 Bill Viola, Going Forth By Day: “The Deluge,” 2002a 135 8.2 Bill Viola, Going Forth By Day: “The Deluge,” 2002b 136 8.3 Bill Viola, Going Forth By Day: “The Deluge,” 2002c 137 8.4 Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange, 1971 140 vii Acknowledgments With these heartfelt words we would like to thank those who inspired, generously supported, and assisted us during the writing of this book. In particular, we thank Richard (Dick) Durst, President of Baldwin Wallace College and former Dean of the College of Arts and Architecture at The Pennsylvania State University who urged us to complete it in spite of our full time jobs as university administrators. Our writing and teaching would not have been possible with- out the inspiration provided by the artists, theorists, and educa- tors whose images, ideas, and teachings appear throughout the pages of this book. Their cultural work has enabled us to under- stand the role of art and pedagogy as important aspects of critical citizenship within contemporary culture. The College of Arts and Architecture and the School of Visual Arts at Penn State provided funding support for us to present versions of some of these essays at national and interna- tional conferences. Additionally, the college financially sup- ported the final stages of the manuscript through the office of Associate Dean Gunalan Nadarajan. We acknowledge the audiences who attended our conference sessions and engaged us in dialogue by raising important ques- tions and providing insightful comments that helped us refine our arguments. The following individuals and agencies gave permission to publish the images included in this book: artists James Kesterke, StacyLevy,CristinMillett,AlexandraSullivan,andDavidYoung; artists Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson of the Goat Island col- lective; artist and photographer Rob Martin; photographer Claude Giger; artist Krzysztof Wodiczko and archivist Stephanie Joson of Galerie Lelong in New York City; Hetty Wessels, archivist in the Reproduction Department of The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; artist Bill Viola and ix