Author: Jill Pluquailec
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Vibrations, Tantrums & Roller Skates
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By Ruthie Boycott-Garnett Last week I participated in the Towards Toddlerhood workshop at Arts Depot in London focusing on tantrums and the artwork of sound artist Seo Hye Lee. Seo Hye placed the speaker on the table and a long low sound filled the room. At first I was enveloped in comfort – a hug…
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Reflections on tantrumming
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By Sid Mohandas The Towards Toddlerhood workshop took place at the ArtsDepot in North Finchley, where wegathered in one of the studio rooms right beside the PlayDepot. The theme of this workshopwas tantruming. In line with the wider aim of the project, the full day workshop sought to moveaway from developmentalist framing of toddlerhood and…
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Feeding – Clifton Park September 3rd 2025
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How, when and what to feed children is contested from birth. We explored feeding as an on-going site of regulation, struggle and loss, by engaging with the materiality of food and permeability of the body. On Wednesday September 3rd we hosted our second project day, Feeding. Hosted by Clifton Park Museum and fed by Momma…
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I’m not the milk and the milk’s not me! A short history of food and children’s literature
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Vik de Rijke (images have been changed to ensure all have commons permission to post). The adult market is flooded with literature such as Getting the Blighters to Eat, Healthy Eating for Toddlers, Just One Bite, etc. The expectation is that toddlers won’t want to eat healthily, have limited palettes and are picky eaters, fuelling…
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Reflections on our feeding workshop: turning towards disability
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At the very end of the day, Abi offered us some prompts and questions that have been swimming around my head ever since. The most poignant, for me, was: “In this work about toddlerhood, what are we still missing, avoiding, afraid of, or only just looking at out of the corner of our eye?” As…