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Orchestrating ArtEvents: Sources, Styles, Scenarios, Strategies

by Stanley Horner

222 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0126; ISBN 1-55369-313-2; US$22.15, C$35.00, EUR22.80, £15.80

Orchestrating Art Events opens a new window onto everyday experiences with art and education, offering clear approaches and in-depth insights into the ways of the imagination and creativity.

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About the Book Orchestrating ArtEvents is a comprehensive, in-depth look into the dilemmas and ambiguities that surround the process of interacting with art. Addressed to both newcomers and experts, artists/viewers, researchers/research subjects, teachers/students, critics/readers of-all-sorts are offered a new approach designed to cut through current confusions and enrich the spirit of seeing beyond the surface. Orchestrating ArtEvents unveils the results of decades of insight and practice into the worlds of Art and Art Education. The introduction of the Analogos concept-map, of the term Meta-Modernism, and of the new alternative, iiae (interactive interdisciplinary art events/art education, an alternative approach that stands to enrich current practices), are presented by the author/originator. The book explores new dimensions in art-event sources, styles, scenarios, and strategies. A postscript includes an overview format to guide readers in the planning/orchestrating of any type of interactive event. Many of the book's ideas appeared first in the monthly iiaeZine (ISSN 1492-9724) of which the author is the editor; to subscribe to the ezine, send an email with the word 'subscribe' as subject to iiae2@hotmail.com. Some questions addressed: Where do artworks come from and where do they go? What are the Life-Styles that drive and are driven by Art-Styles? How does one Orchestrate and be Orchestrated by an Art-Event? What are the issues that frame and are framed by human experiences in Life-Art and Art-Life? How does one make sense of the workings of the Imagination and of Creativity? Visit the author's web site!

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About the Author Stanley Horner, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, lives in Victoria, BC, where he teaches and works in image, text and sound. Other books by Stanley Horner: Sincro.Nis'tee: Reaching <I Ching> The Subject of Art in Process

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Excerpt

If the Romantic is the ground term of the four Sexual Styles, and the female is the ground term of gender (Horner-a, p. 164), then the Romantic Female embodies the basic foundation for human stylistics in general. Even a brief look at the advertising world would seem to confirm that this is exactly where the most prevalent, subliminal motivational output resides.

"The rules of an infinite game must change in the course of play." (p. 9) In an infinite game the rules must be changed when there is a danger of the play coming to an end, that is, becoming a finite game. The rules must prevent any one person from winning; they must encourage the bringing of as many persons as possible into the game. (page 180)

Active learners are advised to work in groups and share in recalling information, constructing explanations, predicting tasks, and applying the new content in life situations. Reflective learners are advised to make individual time for reflection when studying if the general classroom pace does not allow for it.

A student may be able to ask, "What style is best suited to facilitate my learning experience and outcomes?" and in reply, decide upon a single approach and ignore the others possibilities. However, while a teacher needs to ask this same egocentric question with reference to their comfort-style of teaching, they cannot answer with the same singularity. They must also ask, in fairness to the variety of students in any group, "What are all the possible styles that are available to facilitate everyone's learning?" and "How can I teach in such a way that all of these possibilities are not only made available, but fully intrinsic to the process?"

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