TY - JOUR AU - Junttila, Kristina PY - 2020/12/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Exercises in intra-acting: A zone of potential: And an exercise about not dropping out. ‘Tape yourself to a green chair.’ JF - Nordic Journal of Art & Research JA - AR VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.7577/information.4083 UR - https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/ar/article/view/4083 SP - AB - <p>This article is about the participatory performance event <em>Speak for yourself </em><em>(Snakk for deg sjøl)</em> performed mainly for teenagers at schools through the Norwegian Cultural Schoolbag program (<em>Den kulturelle skolesekken</em>), but also for an open audience at Hålogaland Theatre and the Arctic Arts Festival. The center of the discussion concerns <em>what</em> has agency to initiate various ways of participation and produce a zone of potential in this performance event. The author is one of the artists of the performance and thus the diffractive analysis is informed by her role as artist-researcher. The study’s theoretical framework is inspired by the theory of agential realism from physician and feminist theorist Karen Barad.</p><p>The analysis suggests that the initiation of participation is a complex process influenced by both human and non-human performative agents in intra-action with each other. This study will especially focus on the formulation of exercises, performance objects, social media, multiplicity and affect t as <em>performative agents </em>in this performance event. The study indicates that being attentive to the performative agents at play and the kind of participation they produce can potentially create a space where there is room for inclusion, diversity, and unpredictability. This kind of zone of potential also has value for other participatory projects in the intersection between pedagogy and art.</p> ER -