Title Four Boys [For Beuys]
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Liverpool Hope University
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- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
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- GA22C
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- T - Other
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- Open access status
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- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Four Boys [For Beuys] is the primary research output (Anderson’s contribution is the overall conception of the book, its introduction, curating the children’s writing, curating the guest writers and his own single authored chapter). This, along with supporting material which further illuminates the book’s research imperatives is ‘Editorial’ and ‘Afterword’ in ‘On Children’. Together it addresses a lacuna in performance scholarship that Nicholas Ridout identified in 2006: ‘the question of children in performance is a topic in its own right, and awaits further study’. These outputs test and exemplify a new methodology for working with and writing on the category of children from the context of the nuclear family into the broader context of art-activism. This methodology comprises the production of personal accounts of historic events by children, alongside key political organisors (See ‘Protests’ in Four Boys [For Beuys], p33-72), their peer reviewing ‘adult’ work (see Editorial in On Children and, the co-curated (with Alan Read) the Artist Pages in On Children (2018) and critically interrupting/intervening in ‘adult’ phallologocentric thought (after Baraister, 2008 and Senior, 2016) (see ‘Editorial’ in On Children p1-4). This methodology presents the possibility of decentering ‘adult’ control (see ‘Afterword; Children Ruin Everything’) and in this way the child authors engage in the overall conception and execution of the research outputs.
These outputs perceive, theorise and collaborate with children critically interrogate the difficult terrain between acknowledging the material differences instituted by the terms ‘adults’ and ‘children’ whilst effectively managing the risks of essentializing these socially constructed categories. Anderson presented these findings in two international academic events he co-organized: ‘Against children – the kids are revolting!’ symposium at The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home, Liverpool, 2016 and ‘With Children – the child as collaborator and performer’ international conference, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, 2017.
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