Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper theorises the speculative process of how an arts-based online youth activist resource, AGENDA (www.agendaonline.co.uk) is becoming eventful and re-mattering youth voice on gender and sexual violence. Utilising the concept of the ‘cwrdd’ – a Welsh word for gatherings made, found and stumbled upon – we explore how our AGENDA cwrdds attune to, nurture and platform a range of micro-political moments across performances and workshops that entangle human and non-human participants. Inspired by Erin Manning’s concept of the ‘more-than’, we illustrate how the cwrdds carry the past-present-future potentials of what has mattered and is mattering to young people.
Highlights
Responding to the insistence of the cry ‘it matters’ does not mean justifying its claim, constructing the reasons why it should matter
They are calling time on what matters, from slut-shaming, sexual consent and FGM, to trans* rights, inclusive sexuality education and why feminism should be on the school curriculum (Mendes, Ringrose, and Keller 2019)
In ‘making dartaphacts matter’ we introduce the performative role of the dartaphact at the launch of AGENDA
Summary
Responding to the insistence of the cry ‘it matters’ does not mean justifying its claim, constructing the reasons why it should matter. From one-off sessions, to week long workshops and six month projects, Jên’s praxis is to work young people in ways that open movements and feelings to their more-than (for a full theorisation of this process, see Ivinson and Renold in press) For both AGENDA cwrdds in 2017 and 2018, Jên invited all participants, including young people, teachers, youth workers, members from third sector agencies, caterers and AGENDA volunteers to explore what she calls their ‘inner, outer and skin-o-spheres’ with a loose aim of encouraging the noticing, holding and letting go of feelings that may have surfaced throughout the day. This paper is one small drop in articulating part of that process, making visible different ways to experiment with what more our research engagements might do, be and become, in events and with dartaphacts designed to make the more-than of a resource, become eventful, and continue to matter
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