Penser l’indiscipline : recherches interdisciplinaires en art contemporain / Creative Confusions : Interdisciplinary Practices in Contemporary

Creative Con/Fusions: Interdisciplinary Practices in Contemporary Art looks at interdisciplinary theory and practice in contemporary art with a particular, but not an exclusive, focus on contemporary practices in Québec and Canada. The thirteen authors – artists, teachers, curators, theoreticians, and historians – elaborate critical definitions and reflections that are both historical and personal. The importance of performance and video artforms in relation to the emergence of interdisciplinary critical thinking, the contribution of feminist, post-colonial and other theories that address marginality and hybridity, the creation of provocative, inclusive teaching models, the stimulus provided by a host of new technologies, fresh activist art practices, the challenge of independent curating, etc. – these elements all act as release mechanisms for a re-evaluation of the idea of interdisciplinarity as it applies to current practices in and around art.

Editors  
Lynn Hughes
Marie-Josée Lafortune

Contributors  
Lynne Bell
Joan Borsa
Tim Clark
Curtis J. Collins
Jean Dubois
Guy Sioui Durand
Vera Frenkel
Amy Gogarty
Nicole Jolicoeur
Johanne Lamoureux
Denis Lessard
Patrice Loubier
Mireille Perron
Christine Ross

Publisher
Optica Centre D'art Contemporain, Montreal

Publication Date
2001

Binding
Softcover

Languages
French
English

ISBN
2-922085-06-6