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 consciousne

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

Notes from the congress:

Speculative Pasts and Pedagogical Imaginaries: A Symposium on Learning Through Art for Future Nows

Sarah Healy, the organizer of our symposium, Speculative Pasts and Pedagogical Imaginaries: A Symposium on Learning Through Art for Future Nows, shared how this session brought together contributors from the new Learning Through Art volume to share insights from their chapters in an upcoming volume titled, Speculative Pasts and Pedagogical Imaginaries edited by Sarah Healy, Peter Cook, Kate Coleman, and Abbey MacDonald.

The symposium generated a decadent conversation on speculative pedagogies, art education, and future-oriented practice. It also invited the audience to actively and artistically engage with author contributions by co-creating a speculative map of the session. During the symposium, each author was invited to present a short 3-minute provocation based on their chapter which focused on one key insight and a “What if” question that aligns with their chapter contribution.

My performative presentation, which encompassed spoken word poetry and embodied movement, revealed key themes in my chapter, “Inhabiting Images with and through the Wisdom of the Body”. Through my symposium performance, I introduced 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. I am grateful to Sarah Healy for organizing the symposium at the InSEA World Congress in the Olomouc, the Czech Republic (2025), and to Zohreh Valiary for filming my 3-minute performative provocation.

Sandeep Kaur Glover – Speculative Pasts and Pedagogical Imaginaries: A Symposium on Learning Through Art for Future Nows