Dissensuality and Affect in Education

Abstract

This article is a contribution to arts-based approaches to education. It makes a proposition for pedagogy of dissensus, a pedagogy inspired by Jacques Rancière, that is informed by the characteristics of art that possibly enables transformations and de-territorialisations of the subject. The ongoing project My stunning stream – Made with a little mischief (2020–) combining art and running in a repetitive manner is used as a point of departure. The project is used to discuss how art-practice as a lived inquiry relying on dissensual and affective awareness can inform teaching. Important and visible parts of the project are films made about three times a week from the same spot by the sea. The article makes use of a / r / tography as an arts-based research methodology and thereby investigating the art practice from a first-person perspective. The article demonstrates the importance of embodying and living the concepts and the pedagogy one calls for.