Session Information
29 SES 01, The Body in Drawing, the Body in Dance and Visual Cartographies
Video Session
Contribution
In a catering regime of education everything seems to be in the right size and measure to answer particular ends. Learners and learning, knowledge and knowing, are imagined through particular grids of thought that configure what to do in order to achieve a certain state. This paper questions these positionings and rationalities. From the experience of the winter school 'Arts-based research: how do the artistic
and the educational entangle', held in January 2018 in Guimarães, within the framework of network 29, this paper seeks to think of the formats, times and spaces of a school beyond the common sense of what a school means. Concentration, time, attention, exercise, usefullness are some of the practices whose genealogy will be accessed in order to denaturalize the most common and almost unquestionable meanings of what seems to be a disciplinary order of the school. With this, we intend to create a map of entries that, setting a possible order of things and a grammar of schooling, can also be an archive open to multiple configurations.
Method
The study will make use of Michel Foucault's notion of genealogy and archive as a way of making strange what seems today to be natural. It will use Gert Biesta, Jan Masschelein and Marteen Simons' ideas on what is and what can a school be, as a way of resisting the neoliberal winds. The authors talk about the 'dis-appearance' of the school and an act of suspension, profanation and attention in order to create a 'free time'. This free time makes school a matter of itself and not an efficient answer to what is outside the school. We will also makes use of Dennis Atkinson ideas of disobedience and being against the state.
Expected Outcomes
It is expected to think about the times, spaces and subjectivities of schooling, creating alternatives that can denaturalise what seems to have no alternative today. To think about what a school 'is' seems to be the possibility to think about its (im)possibilities.
References
'Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm', Pascal Gielen and Paul de Bruyne 'The Archeology of Knowledge', Michel Foucault 'Joseph Beuys', Gert Biesta 'The Force of Art, Disobedience and Learning: Building a Life', Dennis Atkinson
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