Weaving care and becoming cosmic artisan: a sympoietic Artistic pedagogy and participatory activist approach. New Materialist explorations as world un/re-making. (original) (raw)

Reaching out through literacy: enabling advantage for all, 2022

Abstract

Drawing on Haraway’s (2016) proposition of sympoiesis as ‘making-with’ and Bolt’s (2010) explication of methexis as embodied Artistic practice, this creative and experimental workshop explores an emergent, open-ended pedagogy emphasising care (de la Bellacasa, 2017). It extends an invitation to think beyond developmental approaches and instrumentality, underpinning the emergence of children and teachers as cosmic artisans (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; Sidebottom & Ball, 2018). It suggests trans- and post-disciplinarity as creative endeavour, an “ethereal space in which the mind can be liberated of dogmas, expectations and measurements” (Pernecky, 2020: 14). Such proposition sprouts from affirmative relational ethics, rejects hierarchy and exceptionalism, celebrates difference, intergenerational community, and embodied situated practice. Works of art popularised as picturebooks and various materials are introduced. Collaborators are invited to engage with works of art ‘glowing’ in body and mind, explore through artistic practice-as-inquiry emergent matters of care working with materials, and consider “multiple micropolitical practices of interventions in and on the world we inhabit” (Braidotti, 2010: 674) in an Art-/act-ivist way for the crystallised matters. They are encouraged to attune to the affective power of puhpowee, joyful intensities seen and felt in pleasure and frustration (Kimmerer, 2013). For this workshop,. I assume the role of pedagogista.

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