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Playing with playing
Understanding play as a field of messy, uneven relationships suggests a kind of awkward dynamic tactile/imaginary shape that may be hard to capture but is attractive to think with. I imagine playing coming of Barad’s (2015) queer self-birth: “out of chaos and void, tohu v’vohu [tohu vavohu], an echo, a diffracted/differentiating/différancing murmuring, <a…> repetition without sameness” (p. 393). Play is not unknown, but neither is it striving for my definition. It is a relationship that binds bodies, things and moments. It is shaped by us, and shapes us. Play produces materiality and meaning simultaneously. It’s not a means of producing healthier bodies, stronger arms or better social skills. It’s a…
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Muddling the chronology
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Muddling the chronology
Freedom is here not linked to human volition, nor is it allied to internationality or agency. Freedom is instead allied to the in-act, to the decisional force of movement-moving, to the agencement that opens the event to the fullness of its potential. Freedom is how the event expresses its complexity, in the event. Manning, 2016, p.23 The dock in Woodchip Forest offers precisely the kind of vantage point that lends itself to beautiful nature photography. It is also entirely ignored by children, who lay on their bellies at the edge of the dock to poke at the iced-over wooden planks. After a few minutes, the children move from the dock…
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Playing with playing
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Cardboard Marks On The World
We revisit cardboard in considering how we personally engage with cardboard in the community. Outside of these moments in program what does cardboard look like in our lives? “It comes out every Tuesday to be collected. It’s recycled.” “it comes into my home carrying everything, food, materials, furniture.” “It is a universal shipping material.” “It holds my milk, my eggs, my new TV.” We discussed the complicated, and sometimes troubling nature of cardboard. It led us to ask how we could include community in this dialogue? The constant sounds of development around us remind us that our immediate neighbourhood is changing as new pavements, building and human urban sprawl engulf…
