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Rupturing Object White 

Living Pedagogical Practice

This page explores Rupturing Object White as a live pedagogical practice — one that can be taken into conferences, held by people who do not communicate or express knowledge in text‑based modes, and used by those who relate and disseminate research on their own terms. It is not a practice confined to art spaces. It moves through educational and outdoor settings where space must be made — and actively protected — for voices that are usually overwritten.

Its pedagogy is not instructional. It is relational, embodied, and resistant: a way of learning/experiencing through presence, encounter, and refusal. It is also a practice of self‑determination, a way of holding one’s ground against structures that expect compliance, narrowing research into ableist forms of legibility and restricting the reach and imagination of what is permitted to count as ‘academic research'.

Rupturing Object White isn’t one thing or another, possibly small tears in a plastic white container, leaking and making a beautiful, defiant mess. MAYBE, it’s a force of nature, something that cannot be repeated, something that disrupts positivist notions of knowledge. Something real‑time based...

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