Danielle Boutet (B. Mus., MA, MFA) is a music composer, an
interdisciplinary artist and an art theoretician. She is the founding director
of the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Goddard College in Vermont, a
small experimental college offering programs beyond the traditional disciplines
of the liberal arts. Goddard’s educational approach advances the principles of
progressive education as originally proposed by John Dewey and carried on by
contemporary progressive educators internationally. Boutet is also a consultant
on questions of interdisciplinarity in the arts and a participant in the
international transdisciplinary movement.
Her
artistic work—creative writing, sculpture, drawing and music—explores states of
consciousness and artistic epistemologies, focusing especially on the materiality of language. She also
advances these questions theoretically, and works currently on art as a
practice of the “sacred.” A leading thread in her work has been the Wild in us,
most especially the limits (and the impossibility) of a quest for the Wild when
our identities are so thoroughly constructed. Les Dimensions sauvages (Dimensions of the Wild) is the overarching
title of a whole series of visual, performative and literary works seeking signs
and voices from a primordial and/or extra-temporal consciousness.