The Wet Pants - Becoming an Audience with the More than Human

Abstract

Inspired by new materialist theories, agential realism, and Karen Barad’s idea of entangled intra-action, this article explores how children, teachers, dancers, and researchers become an audience through their intra-actions with each other and with the more than human – such as a pair of wet leggings. I suggest that ways of becoming an audience are created, not just by following what humans do, but also by following non-humans, things, and how they are entangled with each other in becoming an audience. In this article, I show that knowledge production by following a pair of wet leggings also raises new ethical questions and considerations from a child-etic-perspective and in interactive performances. This leads to considerations around how teachers, dancers, children, research practices, and materiality are entangled.