Book chapter
Walking-With Covid: Posthuman Walking Propositions
Walking as Critical Inquiry, pp.185-207
Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research, Springer International Publishing
23/06/2023
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Abstract
This chapter walks a doctoral inquiry located in, through and with Covid-19, the virus that reached pandemic proportions from 2019 onwards and is still a malignant presence at time of writing. This chapter argues that the more than human presence of the pandemic created the conditions for an inquiry that shifted, responded and diffracted away from its original planning towards an engagement with posthuman entities, Covid-19 being but one. Originally planned as a place-based and pedagogical doctoral study that intended to inquire with Chinese art and design university students in Hunan province, the study was necessarily redesigned and repositioned to accommodate a practice-based inquiry impacted by the pandemic and its associated restrictions. The project transmogrified into a study that focused on the more than human. It became a walking-with posthuman covid as a ubiquitous and unyielding presence, always co-implicated in the study and the life and artmakings of the first author, her students and her doctoral supervisors. Posthuman covid thus became a creature implicated in the work by its absent presence and inspired a more fully posthuman artmaking practice, where the agency of more than human entities became actively and agentically implicated in the materiality of art process, art performance and resolved artworks. Place and pedagogy, once the initial focus of the study, became an apparatus of enactment, in an ecology of practice—in this case, walking-with posthuman covid.
Details
- Title
- Walking-With Covid: Posthuman Walking Propositions
- Creators
- Adrienne (Adi) Brown - Southern Cross UniversityAlexandra Lasczik - Southern Cross UniversityAmy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Walking as Critical Inquiry, pp.185-207
- Series
- Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Identifiers
- 991013125408902368
- Copyright
- © 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter