Intra-acting posthuman pedagogies with contemporary art practices to re-‘thing’k (post) practitioner learning in higher education
Bayley’s doctoral study focuses on a theoretical and pedagogical space between the turn to education and the dialogic in contemporary art and the turn to materialism and creative methods in the social sciences. There is limited research from this point of interstices. Bayley’s research asks what happens to practitioner learning when posthuman pedagogies and art practice collide and ‘intra-act’ (Barad: 2007: 141).
Bayley intends to interrupt HE spaces with arts-based encounters. In these between spaces, she will collaborate with practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds to re-‘thing’k thinking on practitioner learning with/through/as art and pedagogy. Bayley’s post-qualitative study moves away from paradigms that privilege social-scientific and positivist forms of knowledge production and representation and explores what comes next after humanist and qualitative methodologies.
Tidy binaries such as theory/practice and teaching/learning are troubled, and the affordances of new empiricisms and materialisms are considered to better account for ‘super complexity’ (Barnett: 2000) in practitioner learning. Bayley hopes that a new and adventurous pedagogy might emerge from this research that advocates for different ways of being and becoming in academic spaces. She also hopes to broaden the scope of the discourse on the educational turn in contemporary art and contribute theoretically to educational discourses in the ‘posts.’
Conferences
(2019) Workshop: encounters and minor gestures: Bayley Morris, Clair Meares and Georgina Garbett. ‘Playing with theory in disquieting spaces.’ Co-producing teaching and learning, 5th Annual CSPACE Research Conference, 10th July 2019.
(2019) Exhibition and encounters: Bayley Morris and Clair Meares. ‘Slow workings: upsetting the rhythm of methodological narrative.’ Chasing Rhythm: Encounters at The Edge of Academic and Epistemological Traditions, International Symposium on Rhythm, Birmingham School of Art, BCU, 29th May 2019.
(2019) Co-presentation/performance/workshop/encounter: Bayley Morris, Clair Meares and Georgina Garbett. ‘Playing with theory in disquieting spaces.’ Postgraduate conference, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2nd February 2019.
(2019) ‘Re-‘thing’king practitioner learning’. Inside//out Conference, Arts, Design and Media faculty, Birmingham City University, 23rd January 2019.
(2018) Performance and co-presentation: Alex Kendall, Victoria Kinsella, Fadia Dakka, Clair Meares, Georgina Garbett and Bayley Morris. ‘Re-imagining practitioner learning’. Border Crossings, professional learning in the 21st Century, iPDA Conference, Aston Conference Centre, 16th November 2018.
(2018) Exhibition and co-presentation: Bayley Morris, Clair Meares and Georgina Garbett. ‘Weaving and entangling visual and dialogic performances.’ Creativities in Educational Research: Weaving and Entanglements, 4th Annual CSPACE Research Conference, Birmingham City University, 3rd July 2018.
(2018) Co-presentation: Kimberley Foster, Caroline Wright, Agnis Smallwood, Nell Croose Myhill, Jo Conway, James Cooper, Lloyd Evans, Sophie Eade and Bayley Morris. The Physicality of Research, Tate Modern, London, UK, 7th June 2018. A film of the day is available here: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/research-centres/tate-research-centre-learning/physicality-research
Art exhibitions
(2019) Take-Over/Volume 3, Birmingham School of Art
(2018) ‘Weaving and Entanglements’. CSPACE Conference, Birmingham City University
(2018) ‘Repeat, recite, restate’. Brixton Pound. London. • (2018) ‘New Art West Midlands’ exhibition. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
