Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance brings cultural studies’ perspectives to bear on Arts practices. Each contribution synthesizes creative approaches to philosophy and new materialist understanding of practice to show how human-nonhuman interaction at the core of Arts practice is a critical post human pedagogy.
Across fine art, dance, gallery education, film and philosophy, the book contends that certain kinds of Arts practice can be a critical pedagogy in which tactical engagements with community, space, place and materiality become means of not only disrupting dominant discourse but also of making new discourses come to matter. It demonstrates how embodied, located acts of making can materially disrupt cultural hegemony and suggest different ways the world might materialize. It argues that the practice of Arts making is a post human cultural pedagogy in which people become part of a broader assemblage of matter, and all aspects of this network are solidified in objects or processes that are themselves pedagogical. In doing so the book offers a fresh and theoretically engaged perspective on arts as pedagogy.
A. Hickey-Moody and Page, T. (Eds.) (2015). Arts, pedagogy and cultural resistance- new matierlisms. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17613/k39xy-hts38
Introduction- Practices, teaching and art production practices are modes of thought already in the act. Contemporary arts practices call us to think anew, through remaking the world materially and relationally. Building on this ethos of practice as thought already in the act, this collection from practitioner arts educators and cultural theorists responds to the increased attention being paid to matter and creativity in social sciences and humanities research, often referred to as new materialism.
Among other things, these approaches are brought together by a shared belief in the transformative capacities (or ‘pedagogy’) of matter. Such research practices posit affective, machinic, enfleshed, vital approaches to research in ways that embody ideas developed in Continental philosophy. New materialism calls theorists to revisit a Marxist emphasis on materiality in research; it calls for an embodied, affective, relational understanding of the research process. So too do theories of practice as research- the intersection of making and thinking is important. In this collection, we show that the way making impacts on thinking is a material pedagogy.
Hickey-Moody, A. & Page, T. (2015). Introduction. In Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance (p. 238). Rowman and Littlefield International. https://doi.org/10.17613/gbnaf-pts75