Making a Subject as a Work of Art: A Living Inquiry Through Photography

• In Event: Using Arts to Transform Spaces: Arts-Based Educational Research in Administration, Academia, and Classrooms

Abstract

The pedagogical dimension of artmaking in terms of human becoming has been an important theoretical issue in research and practice of education through art. In the study, I seek to investigate and examine the potential feature(s) of an emerging subjectivity through a long-term photography-based living inquiry. By performative methods of making photographs and the photobook-inspired method of creating a complete body of photographic work via photo-sequencing, two eventful sets of photowork have stood out to inform two conclusions: 1.photographic practice can provoke an emergent and affective subjectivity through performative experiments with the body and camera in place; 2. the process-product of creating a complete body of metaphoric photowork can simultaneously support the crafting of an experiential and aesthetic subjectivity.

Author

• Wanfei Huang, Chongqing Normal University
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