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Book SynopsisArts, 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.
Trade ReviewThis collection is at once provocative and stimulating, focusing on the central issue of how to practice and think the consequences of affective power – in conceptual, and in experiential terms. The editors identify and frame the contributors research as new materialist, bringing to the disciplines represented here - political philosophy, the creative arts, and education - an enlivened and enriched set of methodological tools, offering new insights with clarity and rigour. -- Felicity J. Colman, Professor of Film and Media Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University
By resisting the corporatized, neo-liberal university and the perpetual gendering, ethnicizing, and sexualizing of bodies and other artistic materials, the collection Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance brings to the fore a singular, new materialist theory of resistance, and it does so affirmatively. Taken together, the essays in this volume uniquely conceptualize matter’s transformative capacities as pedagogical, which imply the entangled nature of opposition and opportunity. -- Iris van der Tuin, Associate Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Utrecht University
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making Matter Matter / 1. Experimental Philosophy and Experimental Pedagogy: A Single Vision, Aislinn O’ Donnell / 2. Probeheads Of Resistance and The Heterotopic Mirror:Tiffany Chung and Dinh Q. Lê’s Stratigraphic Cartographies, Colin Gardner / 3. Dorothy Heathcote as a Pedagogy of Resistance, Amanda Kipling and Anna Hickey-Moody / 4. Art, Resistance and Demonic Pedagogy: From Parasite Capitalism to Excommunication, Charlie Blake and Jennie Stearns / 5. A Pedagogy of Possibilities: Drama as Reading Practice, Maggie Pitfield / 6. “Let me change it into my own style”: Cultural domination and material acts of resistance within an inner city dance class, Camilla Stanger / 7. From Art Appreciation to Pedagogies of Dissent: Critical Pedagogy and Equality in the Gallery, Esther Sayers / 8. Ethnocinema And Video-As-Resistance, Anne Harris / Manifesto: The rhizomatics of practice as research, Anna Hickey-Moody / Index
