Washington, DC, February 3 - 06, 2016 Deadline: Apr 20, 2015 CAA International Committee Session: Going beyond: Art as Adventure Rosemary O’Neill, Parsons – The New School oneillr@newschool.edu The artist-traveler has historically followed political, economic, and cultural expansion. The role of artist as witness, reporter, geographer, collector, and educator exemplifies the significance of mobility, geographic and cultural mediation in the productions of art/visual culture, and the critical questions raised as a result. In contemporary art, especially as the result of globalization, some artists are seeking out remote experiences as typified by Pierre Huyghe’s Antarctic journey adapted for the production, A Journey that Wasn’t (2005). Since, many artists have worked in-situ, in collaboration with local populations, or translated travel experiences from remote locations. This panel aims to pose questions about this phenomenon and how these experiences are conceptualized and re-constructed through reproductive mediums, installations, or documentary formats. This panel further intends to question whether artists’ adventuring to remote sites can, in itself, constitute a form of conceptual art with underlying aspirations for unfamiliar, isolated, and spatial experiences.