As part of her ongoing commitment to finding ways to investigate ontologies of art in the Art History and Theory classroom, Prof Alison Kearney created an installation with 30 bananas, and silver duct tape in a public space at the arts school where she teaches. The installation, titled “This is not a banana” referenced a number of Modernist avant-garde artists, as well as Mauritzio Cattalan’s recent “Comendian” (2019). Situating this artwork within the trajectory of the avant-garde enabled a discussion of the ways in which Modernist and postmodern artists have engaged with discourses of what art is. Participants were asked to write down and share their definitions of what art is, and explain whether Prof. Alison’s work counts as art or not on post-it notes. The inclusion of a tangible proposition of what art can be took our classroom discourse  to a meta-textual level, revealing the ways in which art has become philosophy. It was also lot’s of fun to eat the artworks at the end of the lesson!