MAINTENANCE ART FOR OTHER POSSIBLE WORLDS: Rehearsing a Pedagogy of Care

dc.contributor.advisorLothian, Alexisen_US
dc.contributor.authorPeskin, Evaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentWomen's Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-06T05:51:32Z
dc.date.available2023-10-06T05:51:32Z
dc.date.issued2023en_US
dc.description.abstractMAINTENANCE ART FOR OTHER POSSIBLE WORLDS: Rehearsing a Pedagogy of Care brings together stories, moves and activations for approaching access and difference as preconditions for belonging. Both a text and an enactment, the project offers a framework for interdependent creative practice and care-oriented collaboration, doing multiple things at once: it demonstrates an ethic and technique of play-based learning, offers a story about maintenance as the work it takes to keep caring together, and embraces lunacy as a method for creative resistance. Drawing on Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ premise that attention to maintenance can pause the perpetual motion machine of capitalist consumption/production and Ruth Wilson Gilmore's insistence that freedom is a place we make together in the present, the dissertation stages a confrontation of the multiple trainings that have formed my ethical, aesthetic, and relational processes of learning – both within and beyond the academy, both amateurish and professional – in order to lean into the fissures and ruptures one might ignore that the other can see. This inquiry takes shape in a spiral geography of four repeating moves, a conceptual fractal which gives rise to the action of the work: Unsettling, Dwell, Meanwhile, Sensuousness. The project rehearses this repertoire of moves as a means to center consent, access, self-determination, deep listening, and joy – necessities for the creativity required to undo/step away from/dismantle the many intersecting projects of empire which conspire unendingly against life itself, and to collectively transform into a culture of care.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/dspace/spao-wmfk
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/30798
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAestheticsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt educationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledWomen's studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCareen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMaintenanceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPedagogyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPerformanceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRehearsalen_US
dc.titleMAINTENANCE ART FOR OTHER POSSIBLE WORLDS: Rehearsing a Pedagogy of Careen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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