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Research plan abstract
Liisa Jaakonaho 2023 Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki In my doctoral research I investigate ethical questions in the boundary areas between art, pedagogy and care. Based on my artistic-pedagogic practice, I investigate the themes of disability, vulnerability and agency, whilst contributing to the current discussions around the meanings and practices of agencies that cross the sectoral boundaries between art and social care. The starting point for the research is my work as a dance pedagogue in a social care context, with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. As artistic research, the project produces new knowledge about the role of art in the society, investigating how art can take place and generate meanings in the boundary areas between different contexts, in different encounters, and through artistic expositions that reflect those encounters. The project unloads categorizations and binaries; for example the divide between ”applied” and ”autonomous” art. It also challenges conventional, humanistic notions of subjectivity and agency - proposing that an expanded understanding of disability sheds new light on the post-human subject and artistic agency in post-anthropocentric times. Rather than exposing or “othering” people with disabilities, the gaze is turned to the embodied experience of the researcher, and to the material premises and circumstances around the artistic-pedagogic practice. Methodologically the research is influenced by discourses of artistic, post-qualitative, performative and ethnographic research. Theoretical framework includes i.e. critical disability studies, feminist theory, care ethics and posthumanism. Key research questions are:
The research has been funded by The Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Center for Educational Research and Academic Development in the Arts (CERADA), and Uniarts Performing Arts Research Centre. |
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