Encounters with a Life(Less) Baby Doll

Rethinking Relations of Agency through a Collectively Lived Moment

Bibliographic Data

ID8073724
AuthorsChristina Macrae (0000-0002-1007-683X, Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume13
Issue2
Pages120-131
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary Issues in Early Childhood (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1463-9491 • E-ISSN: 1463-9491
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2304/ciec.2012.13.2.120
OpenAlexW2159990374
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited17

This article reflects on the significance of a series of encounters with a baby doll in an early years' classroom during an artist residency. The article takes an event when a small group of children encounter a baby doll as its starting point. By connecting this shared lived moment with Deleuze and Guattari's idea of machinic production and collective enunciation three significant shifts in the author's thinking occur. First, accepted notions of agency are called into question. Second, the boundary between adult artistic production and children's productions become entangled so that both ‘child’ and ‘adult’ are decentred at key moments. Third, distinctions between object and human are dissolved so that boundary marking between things and people also becomes complicated

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Boundary (topology · Deleuze and Guattari · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Key (lock · Linguistics · Lived experience · Moment (physics · Object (grammar · Point (geometry · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies · Gender Studies · Philosophy

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