Worlding intensity/ies and energy/ies in a portrait of “Ann”
6th June 3pm, 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College
I offer a visual essay that draws on Deleuzian immanence as visual-textual storying, framed by shifting energy/ies and intensity/ies inherent in situated ontologies, the non/human posthuman as non-exceptional, and making practices as documentary, multimodal, participatory, and unfinished. Mutually constitutive relationalities are impacted by subtle energetic interventions drawing on dialogic conceptual exchanges around works of art. Photographs and a portrait series are examined in relation to contemporary art, where unstable energies and intensities transform into singular worlding moments, framed by spaces, things, times, place; non/human entities offer their own animating presences that further situate and contextualize. As the painting of Ann progressed, a vital stirring presence materialized. Energy/ies took up space in the portrait series, shifting over time, just as the energy/ies that occupy all materialities including non/humans and spaces are immanent and resonant, and always in the process of un/knowing and un/becoming.
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Prof Fiona Blaikie
Fiona Blaikie is professor of visual arts education and pedagogy at Brock University. Fiona was President of the Canadian Society for Education through Art; a world councilor for the International Society for Education (InSEA) through Art, and Chief Examiner of International Baccalaureate Visual Arts from 2015-2019. A university administrator for 15 years, Fiona was Dean of the Faculty of Education at Brock University from 2010-2015. Until December 2023, Fiona was Associate Director of the Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University: https://brocku.ca/pri/ and chair of the global Art Education Research Institute: https://www.aerinstitute.org/steering-committee
Fiona’s early scholarship examined aesthetic and pedagogical values inherent in criteria for assessment of studio art, epistemological and aesthetic gaps between high school and tertiary studio art, and, more recently, social theory on the body and clothing. Her edited collection Visual and cultural identity constructs of youth and young adults: Being, becoming and belonging was published in 2021 by Routledge. Fiona has won numerous awards including the USSEA/InSEA International Ziegfeld Award in 2021. Fiona’s current work focuses on situated knowing, new materialities, posthumanism and pedagogy, and post qualitative approaches including arts-based scholarship and visual-textual worlding as storying.