This book presents the creative, arts-based and educative thinking resulting from a “21 day autoethnography challenge” set of self-guided prompts arising from the large-scale collaborative, creative, and global project to explore Massive and Microscopic Sensemaking during COVId-19 Times. It employs a guiding methodological framework of critical autoethnography, narrating the macro and micro experiences of COVID-19 from a first-person, and critically, culturally-informed perspective.
The book features chapters creatively responding to the 21-day pandemic experiment through digital autoethnographic artworks, writings, and collaborations. It allowed authors to build embodied sensibilities, practice autoethnographic forms of writing and making, and transform personal experiences through the COVID-19 moment into critical understanding of scale, sense-making, and the relationality of humans, nonhumans, and the planet.
Author(s): Daniel X. Harris, Mary Elizabeth Luka, Annette N. Markham
Series: Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research, 4
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 253
City: Singapore
Series Editor Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
Editors and Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Art, Autoethnography and Public Pedagogies in Lockdown
Abstract
1 Autoethnography for Contemporary Times
2 The Power of Affect and the Creative-Relational During COVID
3 What is the ‘Massive/Micro Sensemaking’ Experiment, Anyway?
4 Days/21 Prompts (from Markham & Harris, 2020)
5 Working the Chapters/the Work These Chapters Do
6 Conclusion
References
2 Through the Introverted Lens: Making Sense of Local and Global Interpersonal Connections Through Walking and Photography
Abstract
1 Before Walks
2 Walk Through the Chaos
2.1 The Beginning (May 18–21): Physically and Mentally Distant from Others
3 Walking in the Middle (May 22–29): Wanting and not Wanting to Connect
4 Towards the End (June 9–17): Fast and Slow
5 Final Thoughts
6 Artist Statement
References
3 Studio as Liminal Space
Abstract
1 Micro-Massive Experiment: An Autoethnographic Prompt for Artistic Research
2 The Studio as Portal: A Prompt for Curiosity
3 A Studio During a Pandemic: A Space of Longing and Desire
4 Painting the Studio: Sense-Making with Objects
5 Liminality in the Studio
6 Massive-Micro Prompt 5: So What? Who Cares? (Markham & Harris, 2020, p. 5)
References
4 Painting to Live Through Sympoiesis
Abstract
1 Visualising Covid-19
1.1 COVID-19 Sucks
1.2 Visualising Empathy
1.3 Making sense of COVID-19
2 Conclusion
References
5 Feather Flowers, ‘Home’ and a Global Pandemic: Collaborative Storytelling and the Relationality of Things
Abstract
1 PART 1: Background
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Storying and Storytelling
1.3 Setting the Scene
1.4 Feather Flowers: An Intercultural Story?
1.5 Prompt #2: ‘Objects’
1.6 Prompt #15: ‘What Next?’
2 PART 2: Our Story During the Pandemic
2.1 Compiling the Story: A Brief Note
2.2 Masks
2.3 Feather Flowers at ‘Home’
3 Conclusion
References
6 Comics, Sensemaking, and Gutters: Finding and Losing the Self in Times of COVID-19
Abstract
References
7 Alone and in the Dark: Sensemaking Through Online Platforms During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Sensemaking as an Experience
3 Autonomy and Shared Space
4 The Evisceration of Online Sensemaking During COVID-19
5 Conclusion
References
8 Why a Radically Different Act Feels Right: A Reimaging of Life During Lockdown in Rural Norway
Abstract
1 Acting Radically Different
2 What Community of Grief? What Boundary of Dugnad?
3 Radically Differently?
References
9 Roadkill, American Style: A Performative Reflexive Autoethnography Through Embodied Imagination, Photography, and Poetry During COVID-19, March 17–June 30, 2020
Abstract
1 Signs of the Times During COVID-19
2 Global Call for Participation in a Massive and Microscopic Autoethnography Working Group
3 Roadkill, American Style: An Embodied Bricolage Methodology
4 Sensemaking So What? Who Cares?
5 Holding Together During COVID-19
References
10 Playfully Rethinking the Pandemic’s Pivot Imperative: An Early Childhood Researcher’s Reflections
Abstract
1 3rd of June 2020 in Brisbane, Australia (Prompt #17)
2 16th of March 2020
3 21st of April 2020
4 25th of May 2020
5 10th of June 2020
6 27th of August 2020
Acknowledgements
References
11 Triple AAA Ra(n)ting: A is for ____________
Abstract
1 Find at Least 2 Other People in the Group to Address the Question: “What is Going on Here?”
References
12 A Culture of Care in Higher Education: Empathy, Affect and COVID-19
Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Creative Future-Focusing During Speculative Times
3 Empathy in COVID Times: How Has COVID Made Us Better Than We Were?
4 The Role of Empathy in Supervision
5 Massive and Microscopic Sensibilities as In/Conclusions: “How Has the Desperation of COVID 19 Become a Kind of Energy that Can Move Things…?”
References
13 Situating the Self Within a New and Future ‘Normal’: Sensemaking of COVID Through Coproduction
Abstract
1 Introduction
Acknowledgements
References
14 Holobionts, Happiness and Policing in a Suspended World
Abstract
References
