from home. the between
The potential and possibilities of the between.
Slam
Blossoms
Clear
Cracks in the pavement
And breathe and forward, ok
Ughh…uphill
And still and push
Irises
Pink snow
Move
Keep moving
Foggy
And breathe and forward, ok
Mint, no Peppermint
And again and again consistent, continuously
Voice
Voices
The stove
Wait, thinking
Thinking back,
Eggs, stir, yep, move, scrape, turn?
Yep, no, no
Yes…definitely…. yes, yes.
And breathe and forward, ok
So blue and blue
I can smell it
Clear, but warm, not tickling
Too warm?
Yep, no, but what about
Cant
Just cant
Too much
Voice
Voices…too much?
The who
The why
Why cant they just move
Or at least stop
And breathe and forward, ok
Today, ok, what next?
And breathe….
A breath, air in, fill, rise, and fall, shoulders, chest and see and feel and it is clearly ok…now what
I can do…
And move
And forward
Forward
Step
Next step
Moving
And breathe and…ok
Lighter, lifting
Warmth…smell it?
Oh yes
Better
Warm
Smooth
Focusing…and breathe
Ok
And smile
No, no, no no
Overload
Cant
Noise
Too much
No. ..can
Can
Bike, Bike, truck, car
Ohh…jasmine
And breathe…..
Yes, there it is
Coffee, yes….so good.
Ahh…better
So real, its happening
Ok
Together, maybe more about with
It will be now,
But where, here?
And breathe…and forward
Ok…just be
And breathe…ok, here
T. Page (2016-2019). from home. the between. [film-text]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17613/wphn5-18x52
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embodied poetic methods to learn placemaking
The significance of 'place' to our lives is often overlooked, something that is hidden, nuanced and changing yet it is key to understanding who we are, both individually and collectively. Using embodied and poetic practices, underpinned with the theories of new materialism, can enable an examination, a deep mapping of our ways of making and learning place. But it can also enable the mapping of the rationalities of learning and bodies- sensation and memory that can enable a deepened understanding of materialisation and the power relations-politics of placemaking both locally and globally. In an ever-increasing globalised and homogenised world, we need to learn, understand and value the everyday individual and collective ways we make and learn situated knowledges and how it makes us. But this poetic embodied practice is not conceived as fixed or stable, it is poietic; flexible, dynamic and open, continually becoming and not a thing, object or outcome but a method to work the space between that has many possibilities and potential.
Note. First published: https://maifeminism.com/embodied-poetic-methods-to-learn-placemaking/
introduction- feminist new materialist practice: the mattering of method
Research and art/s 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 Special Issue responds to the increased attention being paid to the intra-action, diffraction and spaces between, practice and research, practice and theory. The aim of this collection is to shift the focus from the subject and/or the object to their entanglement and the action between. It is also to examine how, not only are we always with/in bodies, we are always with matter. So, not only do we make matter and meaning, it also makes us; we are entangled, co-implicated in the generation and formation of knowing and being. This collection works these intra- actions of bodies with matter, theory with practice, practice with research, to develop new approaches and bring together a collective knowledge and understanding of these activities.
https://maifeminism.com/feminist-new-materialisms-the-mattering-of-methods-editors-note/
focus issue- mai: feminism and visual culture
feminist new materialist practice: the mattering of method
The aim of this focus issue of MAI, titled Feminist New Materialist Practice: The Mattering of Method is to bring together feminist academics from round the world in the social sciences, arts and humanities to examine the relevance and productiveness of new materialist theories in doing and-or making research. Until recently, the new materialisms have mainly constituted a conceptual field, viewed as ‘high’ theory. However, contemporary work is beginning to explore the methodological suggestiveness of new materialist thinking, developing a range of methods and practice research approaches that both put these insights to work, and reflect back on them, reshaping what new materialisms is, what it does, what it can do and how it can be done-made. As yet, this emerging field of methodological and practical work has not been mapped from a feminist perspective. This focus issue is therefore distinctive in its sustained effort to draw out, consider and push further the implications of new materialist philosophies for new feminist research methodologies, methods and practices – and vice versa.
https://maifeminism.com/issues/focus-issue-4-new-materialisms/