Can group life develop in infancy? What does it look and sound like? Can artistic research produce a new understanding of infancy through a sensory, observational image?
The research project The Social Infant will address such questions, re-evaluating film’s observational mode to produce a new image of early childhood. This three-year research project is based on a longitudinal film study of a group of six infants. The research method will draw on and complicate methods from an international field of infant research. But where existing work prioritises the mother-child relation, I will create a child peer group to illuminate a less researched subject: infant group relations. The project is done at the University of East London, Baby Development Lab, and in collaboration with LUX, London.
The Postdoctoral project is financed by the Swedish Research Council (2023-2026)