Embodied fragments: embracing risk, failure, resistance, and pedagogical possibility

Abstract

This video performance utilizes collage and assemblage to embody risk, failure, and possibility in the communication classroom as well as to explore how such embodiments function as disruptions to normative expectations. Informed by Amy Kilgard’s “pedagogy of chaos,” framework for “collage” the performers generate collaborative fragments of the classroom experience to speak with one another, with the audience, and as distinct, individual voices. Drawing from objects rituals, and sounds of teaching/learning that enable us to survive pedagogical contexts, this performance embraces how bodies resist, subvert, and survive the communication classroom.