Wainwright, H. (2023) Entangled Engagement: Geƫng Started with Lines, Knots and Partcipatory Theatre. Hillary Place Papers (8).
Abstract
This think-piece reflects on the challenges that I have faced in the early part of my PhD, during which I have spent around 250 hours as a volunteer in the Theatre of Sanctuary programme run by a local theatre. Drawing on the work of Tim Ingold (2007;2015), the paper rejects metaphors that see humans as bounded and separate individuals which might be characterised as blocks or blobs (Ingold, 2015, p.3). Rather I frame what happens at the theatre as an ongoing work of becoming, in which parƟcipants, spaces and methods are flowing and ongoing lines (Hayes et al., 2021, p.514), which come together to weave the world from “ever unspooling strands” (Ingold, 2015, p.15). Using illustraƟons drawn from Ingold’s work and from my experience at the theatre, the paper explores how, by becoming knoƩed within this ongoing flow of places, pracƟces, and people, I have begun to accept the challenge of mess in my research.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © University of Leeds 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.48785/100/212 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons (CC-BY 4.0) |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Jan 2024 16:49 |
Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2024 11:44 |
Published Version: | https://hpp.education.leeds.ac.uk/ |
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Publisher: | University of Leeds |
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