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Discarded: Exploring Material Stories And Movements Through Participatory, Public Art Interventions, Kira Hegeman
Discarded: Exploring Material Stories And Movements Through Participatory, Public Art Interventions, Kira Hegeman
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Drawing on DeCerteau’s (1984) philosophy of tactics, which subvert dominant ways of being through creative appropriations of space and behavior, and New Materialist philosophies that offer vitality and agency to non-human objects (Barad, 2007; Bennett, 2004; 2010), this paper explores a three-part series of participatory, public art interventions related to waste, consumption and material relationships. The three installations were distinct but connected, situated in public spaces and corridors as a means of disrupting daily moments while encouraging moments of pause to be with discarded, material objects in playful and creative ways (de Certeau, 1984; Debord, 1956). With these installations we …