Atmospheric Intensities: Skin Conductance and the Collective Sensing Body

Freitas, Elizabeth de; Rousell, David

doi:10.22387/imbaie.10

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“…We explain that we are here to work together as artist-researchers, exploring how works of art can generate different sensations and understandings of change in the world. Rather than relying on gallery educators and curators as experts who will teach how the artworks are made and what they might mean, we invite children to approach the gallery as a creative laboratory for exploring different ways of sensing and responding to change at the level of bodily affects and sensations (see also Rousell et al, 2020; de Freitas & Rousell, 2021, for related approaches to gallery education). We hand out digital SLR cameras, Zoom audio recorders, and wearable GoPro cameras as change-sensing devices and invite the children to freely explore the We Change the World exhibition as researchers searching for forces, flows, resistances, and resonances of change.…”

Section: Sensing Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Learning to Share the World: Reckoning With the Logistics of Whiteness in Public Galleries and Museums

Rousell,

Hussey-Smith

2024

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This article explores moments of pedagogical disruption as children from an urban school encountered an exhibition titled “We Change the World” at the National Gallery of Victoria. In conversation with radical traditions of anti-colonial scholarship, we elaborate children’s disruptions of the gallery as a space of didactic transfer and common ownership of cultural artifacts and knowledges. We then analyze artworks created by children in the wake of their experiences at the gallery, offering alternative propositions for learning to share the world in ways that break with dominant conceptions of museum education, national collections, and the commons.

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Section: Sensing Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Learning to Share the World: Reckoning With the Logistics of Whiteness in Public Galleries and Museums

Rousell,

Hussey-Smith

2024

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“…We might suggest, for instance, that children's use of the term 'intensity' as they transpose a series of sounds through mark-making is in keeping with Bergson's notion of intensive magnitude. Their engagement with this activity acknowledges the complex intensive relationships between sensations as expressions of an intensity that is environmentally dispersed rather than personal (de Freitas, Rousell, & Jager, 2020;de Freitas & Rousell, 2021), thus challenging any simplistic and reductive association between external stimulus and internal response.…”

Section: Intensitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Listening for futures along Birrarung Marr: speculative immersive experience in environmental education

Rousell

Peñaloza-Caicedo

2022

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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This paper considers experiences of speculative immersion as artists and children map the multilayered sonic ecology of Birrarung Marr, a traditional meeting place for Aboriginal language groups of the Eastern Kulin Nation. We explore how speculative practices of immersion shaped the mapping of precolonial, contemporary, and future soundscapes of Birrarung Marr, and the ceremonial burial of these sonic cartographies for future listeners. Bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous concepts of immersion in mutually respectful and purposeful conversation, we work to re-theorise immersive experience as a process of ecological multiplicity and affective resonance, rather than one of phenomenological containment. By approaching immersion as both a concept and a sensation that ruptures the boundary between body and environment, we follow how immersion ‘drifts’ across porous thresholds of sensing, thinking, dreaming, making, and knowing in situated environmental education contexts. In doing so, the paper stresses the importance of speculative immersive experience in cultivating liveable urban futures under conditions of climate change, and responds to the need for new understandings of immersion that take more-than-human ecologies of experience into account.

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“…Harris and Holman Jones (2020) have studied the role of affect in a range of drama education and performance settings. A collective of researchers has also begun using biosensing technologies to map the creative play of affective intensity as young people learn to engage in dramatic improvisation (Rousell & Diddams, 2020) or collectively experience an immersive gallery exhibition (de Freitas & Rousell, 2021). This emerging work is opening new empirical possibilities for affect studies of creative educational experience in live spaces and generating novel insights into the nonconscious and transindividual movements of affect when different bodies work together creatively.…”

Section: Rethinking Creative Educational Experience Through Affect St...mentioning

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Posthuman Creativities: Democratizing Creative Educational Experience Beyond the Human

Rousell¹,

Harris²,

Wise

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Review of Research in Education

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This chapter explores the urgent relevance of posthumanist theory and practice for democratizing creative educational experiences in 21st-century schools, universities, and informal learning environments. Posthumanism challenges the myopic centering of the human in creative education in an age of climate change, artificial intelligence, and zoonotic disease, where nonhuman agencies are intricately imbricated in human cultures and lives. Using a cartographic methodology, the chapter critically maps key theories and debates in posthumanist creativity studies across four substantive fields of inquiry: (a) process philosophy, (b) affect studies, (c) place-based education, and (d) creative ecology. Drawing links between theoretical concepts and practical examples of creative experience across formal and informal education contexts, the chapter scopes an alternative agenda for critical studies of creativity in light of the posthuman turn.

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Atmospheric Intensities: Skin Conductance and the Collective Sensing Body

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Learning to Share the World: Reckoning With the Logistics of Whiteness in Public Galleries and Museums

Learning to Share the World: Reckoning With the Logistics of Whiteness in Public Galleries and Museums

Listening for futures along Birrarung Marr: speculative immersive experience in environmental education

Posthuman Creativities: Democratizing Creative Educational Experience Beyond the Human

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