In the same way in which art practice abandoned the object and instead focused on its modifiers, art education needs to abandon art instruction as the objective and instead focus on how art modifies reality. It may be seen at first as a difficult, and perhaps suspicious venture — as the territory for art as a meta-discipline has not yet been traced. Yet given the current debates and collective interest of the practice, this seems to be the logical progression toward the goal of building an institution that would retain enough flexibility to produce innovative and critical thinking through creativity, and would be structured enough to allow future artists to not produce art in a vacuum.
“Presentness is grace.” -Michael Fried, Art and Objecthood
