Art as a “Thing That Does”: Creative Assemblages, Expressive Lines of Flight, and Becoming Cosmic-Artisan in Teacher Education

Becoming Haunted by a Data-Ghost in Early Childhood Education Documentation Practices

“…35-54 ISSN 1916-3460 © 2022 University of Alberta http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/cpi/index Here, I share the story of my data-ghost where I played in the methodological sandpit of posthuman and feminist materialist theorising (Strom et al, 2019;Taylor, 2016;Fox & Alldred, 2016). Inspired by Sidebottom & Ball's (2018) the notion of art as a "thing that does", I entangle humor and serious play (Haraway, 2016) through the multimodal structure of a five-act play (p. 173). In doing so, I weave theoretical threads, a visualized theatre set with imagined characters and related playscripts (BBC, 2004) to make sense of the before life, the proposal, the emergence and the haunting of my data-ghost.…”