Here there again: Sexism’s everyday spaces within Australian universities
Author Identifier
Emma Fishwick: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0932-4127
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Title
Gender Un/Bound: Traversing Educational Possibilities
First Page
172
Last Page
186
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
RAS ID
77599
Abstract
This chapter outlines how HERE THERE AGAIN, a responsive and generative artwork, works with Sara Ahmed’s idea of ‘non-performativity’ through placing attention on the spaces, material and bodies implicated in acts of everyday sexisms within Australian Universities. In response, the artwork explores how sexist encounters impede on the way gender is expressed within contemporary educational environments by harnessing multimodal and cross-artform methods to make visible educators’ accounts of sexism’s ability to box in gender. HERE THERE AGAIN works with three creative methods: walking interviews, photography and participatory mapping, which stem from a slow and choreographic methodology, whereby world-body-material encounters are used to untangle neoliberal ideas of how gendered experiences like everyday sexisms can be articulated and understood within educational spaces. The slow and choreographic framework enabled the creative methods to act as expressive, relational and body-centred pathways for participants to unpack their gendered experiences beyond the traditional university reporting mechanisms. Advocating that a slow and choreographic literacy based on material-body relations supports alternate ways of seeing the banal educational spaces of our institutions, where everyday sexisms are not only enacted but are felt.
DOI
10.4324/9781032713663-13
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Fishwick, E. Here there again: Sexism's everyday spaces within Australian universities. In Gender Un/Bound (pp. 172-186). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032713663-13