Affective Nonhuman/Human Literacies in Museum and Theater Education

• In Event: Millennium Hotel Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: Readings of Embodiment across/within curriculum

Abstract

This research explores dreams, possibilities, and necessities of public education through human and non-human bodies and events pertaining to affective literacies. Literacies are defined to include vital matters. Data were collected in an art museum and during theater rehearsals, emblematic settings, and analyzed using assemblage methods to show capacities of bodies, human and otherwise, to affect and be affected (Deleuze & Guattari, 1980/1987; Massumi, 2015), and to point to ways that affect theory and post-qualitative methods might be useful in education research and reading and writing the world. We show how bodies of art and mundane materials in a major museum, school, and theater, driven by desire, transact with teachers and students that implicate particular human values and political issues.

Authors

• Jonathan Eakle, George Washington University

• Evan Crump, The George Washington University