Event

We look to the creative child as an event. If we do not take the creative child as natural, instead as a fabrication, then inseparable from this way of understanding this fabrication of a certain kind of people (Hacking) is this making as an ‘event’. In this project, the idea of the creative child as a natural occurrence, or creativity as an essence that is natural to childhood, is considered to be ‘eventful’. This ‘eventualizing’ of the child as creative is to ask about it as an effect of historical practices and power relations, to access the multiple lines that compose what we today conceive as the creative child, its rules of formation and enunciations. Some of its meanings are lost through time, some are changed, contradictions and specificities coexist, and all of them are part of the ways of reasoning about the creative child as history in the present. Considering the creative child as an event presupposes that we treat discourse in its materiality and irruption. Discourse is not being used as a descriptor of reality but as a producer of that reality. As such, the creative child as an 'event' is made up of several layers that become invisible in the present, making this present possible.