Sandeep Kaur Glover

2.17 Inhabiting Images with and through the Wisdom of the Body (Paper)

Sandeep Kaur Glover – Simon Fraser University, Canada

Abstract:

My paper presentation grows out of my chapter submission for InSEA’s forthcoming book, Learning through Art: Speculative Pasts and Pedagogical Imaginaries edited by Drs. Kathryn Coleman, Sarah Healy, Abbey MacDonald, Peter J. Cook, and Glen Coutts. In this performative paper presentation that will interweave storytelling, spoken word, and embodied movement, I will introduce audience-participants to the relational possibilities that arise when photographic images are not just looked at through the privileged purview of sight, but engaged with and through our multiple senses (Campt, 2017). Through visual-visceral modes of inquiring wherein seeing constitutes an entry point into further forms of sensing and sense-making, I will guide audience-participants in and out of multiple autobiographic living frames, what I call sensorial snapshots (Glover, 2024, forthcoming), to reveal the porous potentialities of seeing-sensing anew. In so doing, I aim to demonstrate how embodied engagements with photographic images may cultivate wide-awakeness (Greene, 2000) by enlarging our relational, critical, and cultural consciousness.

Sandeep Kaur Glover – Inhabiting Images with and through the Wisdom of the Body (Paper)