ABSTRACT
This chapter is about an exploration of material intra-action when using a performative approach to wool felting. I propose a processual and emerging pedagogy, material awareness that can decentralise the human and give attention to intra-actions between human, non-human and immaterial components of wool felting processes. This chapter is written through the rhizomatic relationship of my artistic, pedagogical and research practices, i.e. through their permeable relationship as they mutually absorb and penetrate each other. I explore, possibly challenge and hopefully expand traditional teacher-student relationships and the supposed passivity of materials. Submerging my multiple selves in a performative research, I engage aesthetically, using all my senses, with/in the research in a responsive way into the pedagogical context I evolve in. I argue that performative research is constantly in a state of becoming; it acknowledges that knowledge is neither static nor neutral and that knowing and doing evolve as intimately linked. I use a diffractive reading of the philosophical and theoretical framework proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1980) and Karen Barad (2007) especially her work with agential realism.
