Doing Arts Thinking: Practice, Research and Education Lessons of Belonging

Lessons of Belonging explores belonging through art, place, and the sea. Moving between text and image, this book would interest readers engaged in the study of art, culture and education with particular focus on race, the Mediterranean and post-colonial studies. Prompting this book is the paradox of belonging. What pushes the author to write are art’s questions. Rather than take the route of writing, artists in academia could opt for the studio, teaching students, and occasionally indulge in conferences and symposia. However, beyond such rituals, writing art’s questions remains akin to art’s acts of belonging. In these lessons of belonging this is done through art’s paradox. Belonging is a matter of art because art belongs to the aporia that writes it.