Feltness
Research-Creation, Socially Engaged Art, and Affective Pedagogies
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About This Book
Stephanie Springgay's concept of feltnessâwhich emerges from affect theory, queer and feminist theory, and feminist conceptions of more-than-human entanglementsâis a set of intimate practices of creating art based on touch, affect, relationality, love, and responsibility. In this book, she explores how feltness is a radical pedagogy that can be practiced with diverse publics, including children, who are often left out of conversations about who can learn in radical ways. Springgay examines the results of a decade-long project in which researchers, artists, students, and teachers participated in events in North American elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions. In projects that ranged from children learning to be critics and artists to university students experimenting with building "a public" through art, participants blended participatory art creation with academic research to address social justice issues. Springgay shows how feltness can redefine who is imagined to be capable of complex feeling, experiential learning, embodied practice, social engagement, and intimate care. In this way, feltness fosters learning that disrupts and defamiliarizes schools and institutions, knowledge systems, values, and the legibility of art and research.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Color Plates
- Introduction: Feltness: On How to Practice Intimacy
- Chapter One: Bitter Chocolate Is for Adults!: Matters of Taste in Elementary Studentsâ Socially Engaged Art
- Chapter Two: Imponderable Curricula: Living the Future Now
- Chapter Three: Fluxus and the Event Score: The Ordinary Potential of Radical Pedagogy as Art
- Chapter Four: Anarchiving as Research-Creation: Instant Class Kit
- Chapter Five: Conditions of Feltness
- Chapter Six: Make a Public
- Chapter Seven: Pedagogical Impulses
- Notes
- References
- Index