Intersectional and Decolonial Perspectives on an Incorporeal Materialism: Towards an Elemental Philosophy of Art Education

David Rousell; Anna Hickey-Moody; Jelena Aleksic

doi:10.1111/jade.12517

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Intersectional and Decolonial Perspectives on an Incorporeal Materialism: Towards an Elemental Philosophy of Art Education

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Intersectional and Decolonial Perspectives on an Incorporeal Materialism: Towards an Elemental Philosophy of Art Education

David Rousell, Anna Hickey-Moody and Jelena Aleksic

The international journal of art & design education, Vol.43(3), pp.343-362

01/08/2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12517

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arts education

decolonisation

elemental philosophy

feminist materialism

incorporeal

intersectionality

Considering art and its educative potentials as a living experiment with the body's elemental constitution and modes of organisation, this article engages water, earth, air, and fire as milieus through which a body learns to sense, move, and act in the world differently. This leads to a series of propositions for an elemental philosophy of arts education, which recognises the intersectional and decolonial potentials of bodies, and strives to amplify and proliferate these potentials through creative pedagogic practices. If, as Elizabeth Grosz (2017) proposes, "the chain of evolutionary emergence is unbroken not only materially but also conceptually" (p. 250), then arts education offers an expression of the body's incorporeal and material potentials as they change and evolve through time. Further to this position, we argue that arts education has the potential to radically reframe relationships with water, earth, air, and fire in ways that resist their co-option as tools of colonialism and intersecting categories of oppression.

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Title: Intersectional and Decolonial Perspectives on an Incorporeal Materialism: Towards an Elemental Philosophy of Art Education
Creators: David Rousell
Anna Hickey-Moody
Jelena Aleksic
Publication Details: The international journal of art & design education, Vol.43(3), pp.343-362
Publisher: Wiley
Number of pages: 20
Identifiers: 991013204072802368
Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). International Journal of Art & Design Education published by National Society for Education in Art and Design and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License.
Academic Unit: Faculty of Education
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Intersectional and Decolonial Perspectives on an Incorporeal Materialism: Towards an Elemental Philosophy of Art Education

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