Cosmic Art Pedagogy for the Anthropocene Era

Abstract

This essay attempts to shift the ontological ground for art education to think along a cosmology that is adequate for the Anthropocene era. The cosmic-eco-artisan (without authority) is forwarded as an exemplar of what Deleuze and Guattari would call conceptual personae’. Their cosmic geo-philosophy plays a dominant role in this essay. The point is made that each eco-cosmic project is a singularity and context bound. There is no art education or procedural methodology’per se. Rather, what is necessary is for art pedagogy to address the Anthropocene problematic through artistic cosmic forcework’via a techné; that is, through apparatuses which bring art and science together. I call this artscience or scienceart depending on where the emphasis is placed. I end this essay with several paradigmatic examples to vivify this thesis.