The Dreaming Body: Cut-ups, Tattoos and Other Narrative Assemblages of Inter-being and Becoming This presentation explores how ‘cut up’ assemblages of found texts and images may, via bricolage/decoupage processes, be applied to 3-dimensional objects, as an autoethnographical exploration of self-storying life transitions and transformations – the shape shifting assemblage, charting the liminality betwixt teacher and student; researcher and writer; thinker and dreamer. The embodied, autoethnographic process and product becomes entangled and entwined with rhyzomatic methodologies of meaning making: deconstruction, defamiliarsation and intertextuality. The narrative presented is sequenced and revisioned as an evocative, embodied creative-relational re-positioning, re-selfing, re-wilding – layering identities; arriving, not finishing. About Mark: I hold posts as Senior Lecturer on the Professional Doctorate in Education at St Mary’s University, Twickenham; Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton; and Honorary Fellow with Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry, University of Edinburgh. My research interests lie in the fields of narrative and participatory inquiry and autoethnography, exploring particularly issues of agency, voice, border crossing and boundary spanning. This work mirrors my own professional life changes from playworker, to teacher, to youth worker, to counsellor, to academic, research and writer. I recently became a student again, embarking on an MA in Creative Writing. My teaching and supervision experience centres on qualitative inquiry, critical and creative reflective practices, partnerships, collaboration, intersubjectivity and collegial capital. This event will be held in person and recorded. The room details will be found in the Order Confirmation you receive following registration. If you'd like to join this event live but are unable to attend in person please contact CCRI (ccri-info@ed.ac.uk); we’re exploring how we might offer an online live attendance option. May 05 2022 16.30 - 17.45 The Dreaming Body: Cut-ups, Tattoos and Other Narrative Assemblages of Inter-being and Becoming Years ago, I was given a reproduction statuette of Rodin’s The Thinker from a cohort of students at the end of their degree – a gift so kindly meant. And when in deepest lockdown I left my academic role of over 20 years and cleared my office, The Thinker came home. Over the coming months, I began to cover the statuette with images from magazines I’d bought and read during lockdown, and added cut-out words later – over time, The Thinker becoming The Dreamer. Parallel to this process, I began to get tattooed – the decoupage process being applied to my body – each tattoo positioned in relation to the next, in response to the process of inter-being and becoming. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ccri-first-thursday-seminar-tickets-318933367287
The Dreaming Body: Cut-ups, Tattoos and Other Narrative Assemblages of Inter-being and Becoming This presentation explores how ‘cut up’ assemblages of found texts and images may, via bricolage/decoupage processes, be applied to 3-dimensional objects, as an autoethnographical exploration of self-storying life transitions and transformations – the shape shifting assemblage, charting the liminality betwixt teacher and student; researcher and writer; thinker and dreamer. The embodied, autoethnographic process and product becomes entangled and entwined with rhyzomatic methodologies of meaning making: deconstruction, defamiliarsation and intertextuality. The narrative presented is sequenced and revisioned as an evocative, embodied creative-relational re-positioning, re-selfing, re-wilding – layering identities; arriving, not finishing. About Mark: I hold posts as Senior Lecturer on the Professional Doctorate in Education at St Mary’s University, Twickenham; Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton; and Honorary Fellow with Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry, University of Edinburgh. My research interests lie in the fields of narrative and participatory inquiry and autoethnography, exploring particularly issues of agency, voice, border crossing and boundary spanning. This work mirrors my own professional life changes from playworker, to teacher, to youth worker, to counsellor, to academic, research and writer. I recently became a student again, embarking on an MA in Creative Writing. My teaching and supervision experience centres on qualitative inquiry, critical and creative reflective practices, partnerships, collaboration, intersubjectivity and collegial capital. This event will be held in person and recorded. The room details will be found in the Order Confirmation you receive following registration. If you'd like to join this event live but are unable to attend in person please contact CCRI (ccri-info@ed.ac.uk); we’re exploring how we might offer an online live attendance option. May 05 2022 16.30 - 17.45 The Dreaming Body: Cut-ups, Tattoos and Other Narrative Assemblages of Inter-being and Becoming Years ago, I was given a reproduction statuette of Rodin’s The Thinker from a cohort of students at the end of their degree – a gift so kindly meant. And when in deepest lockdown I left my academic role of over 20 years and cleared my office, The Thinker came home. Over the coming months, I began to cover the statuette with images from magazines I’d bought and read during lockdown, and added cut-out words later – over time, The Thinker becoming The Dreamer. Parallel to this process, I began to get tattooed – the decoupage process being applied to my body – each tattoo positioned in relation to the next, in response to the process of inter-being and becoming. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ccri-first-thursday-seminar-tickets-318933367287
May 05 2022 16.30 - 17.45 The Dreaming Body: Cut-ups, Tattoos and Other Narrative Assemblages of Inter-being and Becoming Years ago, I was given a reproduction statuette of Rodin’s The Thinker from a cohort of students at the end of their degree – a gift so kindly meant. And when in deepest lockdown I left my academic role of over 20 years and cleared my office, The Thinker came home. Over the coming months, I began to cover the statuette with images from magazines I’d bought and read during lockdown, and added cut-out words later – over time, The Thinker becoming The Dreamer. Parallel to this process, I began to get tattooed – the decoupage process being applied to my body – each tattoo positioned in relation to the next, in response to the process of inter-being and becoming.
