Individual Presentation or Panel Title
The Mythopoetics of Currere: Jean-Michel Basquiat Teacher of Resistance
Titles of Presentations in a Panel
The Mythopoetics of Currere. "Doll"
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Teacher of Resistance
Abstract
The Mythopoetics of Currere is about untangling the self as Other. It is about alterity. Penelope Lively's use of the "butterfly effect" will be used to critique the influences in our lives that prevent our agency. Jean-Michel Basquiat's graffiti art will also be explored as a living mythology, as a form of Currere, as an attempt to untangle his struggles as a young black artist coping with drug addiction. He used his art to find agency but lost agency in the end to a heroin overdose. His was a life of "Imaginative alterity"as William Pinar (2011) put it. This curriculum dialogue is based on a post-Jungian concept of the mythopoetic. These scholars will discuss the psyche as a complicated conversation that needs to go into the underworld to better understand self struggle.
Presentation Description
The Mythopoetics of Currere is a struggle of agency. Myth, fiction and graffiti art will be explored as uses of "imaginative alterity" (Pinar, 2011) that work to disentangle the self as Other. This is a complicated conversation about fiction and lives that are lived mythopoetically.
Publication Type and Release Option
Event
Recommended Citation
Morris, Marla and Doll, Mary A. Dr, "The Mythopoetics of Currere: Jean-Michel Basquiat Teacher of Resistance" (2018). Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. 57.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cssc/2018/2018/57
The Mythopoetics of Currere: Jean-Michel Basquiat Teacher of Resistance
The Mythopoetics of Currere is about untangling the self as Other. It is about alterity. Penelope Lively's use of the "butterfly effect" will be used to critique the influences in our lives that prevent our agency. Jean-Michel Basquiat's graffiti art will also be explored as a living mythology, as a form of Currere, as an attempt to untangle his struggles as a young black artist coping with drug addiction. He used his art to find agency but lost agency in the end to a heroin overdose. His was a life of "Imaginative alterity"as William Pinar (2011) put it. This curriculum dialogue is based on a post-Jungian concept of the mythopoetic. These scholars will discuss the psyche as a complicated conversation that needs to go into the underworld to better understand self struggle.