5. Go off on a tangent
“Go off on a tangent” is a prompt that repeats from one session to the next. Rather than dissuade participants from exploring even far-fetched connections to a shared text — as conventional teachers tend to do — we encourage free and broad reading to select a contribution to post. Posting the variety of “tangents” anonymously and sampling them as a first activity of the following session, iterates and anticipates the intellectual and the social value of curiosity and personal differences.
“A Voice from the Window” by Jesús Colón at “Addictions” exhibit, Harvard Art Museums, November 25, 2023
“Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, with Afro Colombian teens and the Ministry of Science and Technology, at Harvard Art Museums, May 23, 2022
Pescara, Italy, at Fondazione La Rocca with “The Ignorant Schoolmaster.”
“From Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish,” with Boston University Arts Administration Students, at Harvard Art Museums, Summer 218.