Performance Art as a Site for Learning: Queer Theory and Performance Studies in the Art Classroom

Today, performance art is one of the most useful mediums for helping individuals see themselves differently. In this of Out of sight article, I explore the experience of participating in a student\u27s performance art project. This work was a performance of crossing the road. Here, I discuss the inclusion of overtly queer articulations of personal experience within the art classroom. How can performance art construct learning experiences that engage a dynamic process of self-critique? How are classrooms organized differently when students become actively involved in the development of the art curriculum? And, how might a performative investigation of the sociality of education be undertaken at sites of art education