Introduction : Mediterranean art and education : navigating local, regional and global imaginaries through the lens of the arts and learning

Abstract

Engaging with the arts and education in the Mediterranean is not unlike walking an intellectual tightrope. Or better still, such an undertaking could be compared to traversing a mesh made of scores of tightropes that intersect each other like a delicate weave, alternating between moments of respite and dizzying gaps or dilemmas. This network of tensions hovers over a space that simultaneously exists and does not exist, a space that can be located geographically quite easily but refuses to allow itself to be defined rationally. It is a space that is replete with collective and individual narratives and desires, yet the sheer number and diversity of its singularities obstruct a clear view of the ‘whole picture’.