Playing it Safe in the Artroom

OBAE. This is not a push for Visual Culture, although it is about the visual that takes place in the classroom (usually outside of the vision of the pushers). This is a shift in perception, an ear tha t performs beyond its limits, or an eye that hears. This is a synaesthetics. Art educators have much to learnh"om those who refuse to speak, students who stand when asked to sit, students who defy the dictatorial impulse available to all educators, students who remain mute when expected to scream. This embodied silence has the potential to re-order, to open new possibilities for critique and creation, to inform our practice more than hearing the echoes of our own voices in the classroom. Note