Rebel bodies and affects in movementImagining scenes for an indocile pedagogy

Laburpena

This research project draws from the experience of a collaborative performance ethnography, that took place in two secondary schools in Barcelona during the year 2016-2017 within the context of project PI(E)CE, an artistic, social and educational initiative. Embedded within a framework, which entangles the politics of emotion from a feminist and post-colonial perspective, pedagogies of liberation and contact, and studies in performance and performativity, this project explores the possibilities of resistance and transformation in scenes where the participant adolescents challenge traditional discourses of gender, race and sexuality, produce counter-narratives, and, ultimately, experiment or negotiate with their identities. Taking the thread from the pedagogical actions proposed in PI(E)CE and the creations of the participants, the research navigates the scenes which illuminated elements of a pedagogy of resistance, agency and transformation. Through a performance ethnography, that nourishes from queer phenomenology and affect in / as methodology, it composes scenes which trace an encounter between art and education, as well as enable the imagination of a transformative pedagogy. This quest moves the creation of an imaginary for an indocile pedagogy –nurtured by the elements of contact, movement and imagination- which elaborates on the intersections between emotionality and identity, performance and performativity. Finally, this research project unravels a questioning of interpretational strategies provided in qualitative research through the tactic of plugging in. Towards this direction, emotion is embraced not only as an element of methodology, but as method itself in an attempt to also mobilize alternative research imaginaries.