Hellman, Annika Amelie

Lind, Ulla Elisabet

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A Thousand Becomings in Visual Art and MediaEducationAnnika Amelie Hellman, Ulla Elisabet LindKonstfack, SwedenAbstractIn this research, upper secondary pupil’s video diaries were used to investi-gate media education both critically and affirmative, as new ways of knowingand being. Six pupils recorded video diaries during school year 2013-14 wherethey talked about their experiences from media education and school (Hell-man, 2017). One specific concern of our research is the relationality betweenbodies, visual culture and the materiality of media education. Using a posthu-manist framework, we unpack the flows of affective intensities of pupil’s videodiaries. We contribute to thinking about media education as assemblages ofbecoming (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987/2004). Video diaries do not representpupils but produce ways in which it is possible to become. We use the conceptfabulation to make visible the potentiality of visual art and media educationthrough pupil’s video diaries. Fabulation is about how art facilitates a re-construction of views of the world in new ways, rearticulating the future inunimagined ways (Deleuze & Guattari, 1994).Pupil’s fabulations and assemblages of becoming have implications for the fieldof art and media education and its future. In order to build educational as-1356 Synnyt / Origins | 2 / 2019 | Abstractssemblages that are sustainable, we need to listen to and comprehend pupil’sdifferent voices and develop democratic and inclusive strategies for learningin the 21st century.KeywordsVideo diary, Upper secondary school, Assemblages of becoming, Fabulation, Sustainability.1357 Synnyt / Origins | 2 / 2019 | Abstracts

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