Abstract
Inspired by feminist new materialist and posthuman activist philosophy, this paper speculates on what happens when data entangles with arts-based methodologies in a school-based participatory activist project with six teen girls (age 15) on gender-based and sexual violence. Mapping the journey of how data become da(r)ta and how da(r)ta become d/artaphacts, the paper follows how the Runway of Disrespect, the Shame Chain, the Ruler-Skirt and the Tagged Heart ripple through peer cultures, school assemblies and national policy landscapes. Each journey provides a small glimpse into how bodies, space, objects, affects and discourse ‘intra-act’ in dynamic assemblages to produce d/artaphacts crafted from and carrying experience. The paper concludes to consider the ethical-political affordances of how participatory arts-based methodologies and the im/personal vitality of objects might support young people to safely and creatively communicate and potentially transform oppressive sexual cultures and practices.
Highlights
What is at issue is response-ability – the ability to respond (Barad, cited in Kleinman, 2012, p. 81)In their book, Thought in the Act, Manning and Massumi (2014, p. 87) argue that is not enough for research scholarship to only offer critical commentaries on the ‘state of things’
Like many critical social scientists, I have been exploring what else research on sexual2 violence can do, be and become in ways that can reanimate matters of social justice and inequality. Part of this journey has involved experimenting with creative and arts-based methodologies informed by posthuman and feminist new materialist activist philosophies (Braidotti, 2010; Papadopolous, 2010; Reicchia, 2010)
Many scholars researching the field of youth and sexual violence work at the threshold of research and activism
Summary
What is at issue is response-ability – the ability to respond (Barad, cited in Kleinman, 2012, p. 81)In their book, Thought in the Act, Manning and Massumi (2014, p. 87) argue that is not enough for research scholarship to only offer critical commentaries on the ‘state of things’. Each card perhaps enabled every assembly member and the wider patriarchal policy machine to feel the immediate relation of young people’s experiences, but perhaps enabled them, like the girls, to re-experience and affectively connect to a deeper unconscious knowing of how the historical legacies of gender-based and sexual violence endure.
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