Saturday school presentation

1. Fugitive Spaces:
Affective Flows,
Imprints of
Trauma and New
Life Narratives
In Barrio Logan
Angela Gigliotti, PhD candidate
Educational Studies, Centre for Art and Learning
Goldsmiths, University of London

2. Research Questions
Can expressive arts be used to create new life
narratives among adjudicated youth?
How is Barrio Logan as place created through
visual imagery and corporeal perceptions?

3. Practice as Research
• socially engaged, relational art
• embedded within the community as a local resident
and teacher
• collaborating with other artists, including my students
as artists
• explore the ‘work’ of art in their lives and in my own

4. Artistic influences
Suzanne Lacy’s use of narratives and the aesthetic
experiences she creates.
• ‘Skin of Memory’
• ‘The Crystal Quilt’
• ‘There are Voices in the Desert’

5. Suzanne Lacy ‘The Skin of Memory’

6. Suzanne Lacy ‘The Skin of Memory’

8. A/r/tographic
• Springgay and Irwin
• art practice and research includes my own stories and experiences

9. Within my studio
practice and
teaching,
memories of
trauma and stories
of place have
emerged through
artworks and
anecdotes of art
practices.

10. I am drawn to
the in between
spaces—the
liminal spaces,
as a border
resident, as a
mestiza, and
researcher.

11. Chicano Park,
Barrio Logan

12. Using photo and
video elicitation
is an attempt to
shift the power
of
representation
to the students.

13. The affective encounters within the art practices are mapped both artistically, as
photography and videography, and as a form of critical pedagogy

14. Affective Cartography
Simonetta Moro
• maps the city through personal landmarks and recordings of mood in
relation to places.
Liz Kueneke and Margarita Pineda
• mapping of symbolic identity to spaces as an artistic practice.

15. Simonetta Moro,
‘Peripatetic Box’

16. Liz Kueneke
and
Margarita
Pineda