Diffracting New Materialisms: Emerging Methods in Artistic Research and Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9783031186066 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Annouchka Bayley; Jj Chan

Opis

This edited book considers the vital position of artistic research in the landscapes and ecosystems of new materialism(s) and post-humanism(s), in and for higher education. The book aims to satisfy an urgent desire for change in the ways we link artistic and critical research practices, asking what new ways of thinking and creating for twenty-first century artistic and educational contexts we need in order to address the kinds of global complexities we face. Organised around five key themes including fictioning, reading, embodying, inhabiting and folding, the book acts as an entry point for academics, artists and scholar-practitioners to participate in the shaping of new forms of artistic research and practice that are relevant, participatory, and that urgently address the kinds of complex issues emergent in our twenty-first century context. In doing so, the book makes a key contribution to the development of emerging inter- and transdisciplinary artistic research practices across a range of fields, responding to the question - what kinds of research and practice worlds do we wish to create in times of urgency, crisis and complexity? 

Spis treści

Preface: How to Read this Book

Annouchka Bayley & JJ Chan

 

Chapter 1: Entanglements and the Many-Worlded Doing of Research-based Practice, Practice-based Research, Practice-as-Research, and Postqualitative Inquiry in the Academy

Annouchka Bayley

 

APPARATUS

 

Chapter 2: Diffraction as Cross-Disciplinary Methodology between Science, Arts, and STS (Science & Technology Studies)

Astrid Schrader

 

Chapter 3: At the Deepest Depth of Uncertainty there are always Blue Rays of Hope

Anna Nazo

 

Chapter 4: Entanglements and Response-ability in Intergenerational Performance Ecology

Sarah Hopfinger

 

Part I: FICTIONING

 

Chapter 5: A Discreet Exit Through the Back Door

Erin Hill

 

Chapter 6: Essayers, Zines, and Peeps: the matter of diffraction (for undergraduate practice-as-research)

Helen Iball

 

Chapter 7: What is New Materialist Aesthetics?

Thomas Nail

 

Chapter 8: Entanglements and Response-ability in Intergenerational Performance Ecology

Sarah Hopfinger

 

Part II: EMBODYING

 

Chapter 9: Magical in Spite of Being Analysed - Representation and Diffraction in Rudolf Laban’s Space Harmony

Brian Schultis

 

Chapter 10: If one looks closely at an edge: Four dances remember'd

Simon Bowes

 

Chapter 11: Entanglements and Response-ability in Intergenerational Performance Ecology

Sarah Hopfinger

 

 

 

Part III: READING

 

Chapter 12: Diffractive thinking, reading, writing and playing : the Methodology of Constallations(s) - 3G

Annie Abrahams, Alix Desaubliaux, Alice Lenay & Pascale Barret 

 

Chapter 13: Reimagining Methodologies of Reading

Harriet Plewis

 

Chapter 14: Troubling terrains of diffractive re-readings: Performing transdisciplinary re-matterings of music, mathematics and visual art materiality

Pam Burnard & Carloyn Cooke

 

Chapter 15: Entanglements and Response-ability in Intergenerational Performance Ecology

Sarah Hopfinger

 

Part IV: INHABITING

 

Chapter 16: Plastic Critique 

Kelina Gotman

 

Chapter 17: Beating Around the Bush: Post-Human Theatre in Manuela Infante’s Vegetative State 

Camila Ortiz

 

Chapter 18: The Iridescent Creature: Notes for performing a web-cam based investigation

Alice Gale-Feeny, Andrea Stokes & JJ Chan

 

Chapter 19: Entanglements and Response-ability in Intergenerational Performance Ecology

Sarah Hopfinger

 

Part V: FOLDING

 

Chapter 20: The Diffractive Power of Repetition

Filippo Romanello

 

Chapter 21: Excavating the Present: Time as Diffracting Ghost in ‘We Dig’

Christopher Danowski

 

Chapter 22: In/Visible Relations: Feminist New Materialisms for (Post)Pandemic Arts Pedagogies

Hermione Wiltshire & Annouchka Bayley

 

 

O autorze

Annouchka Bayley directs the Arts, Creativities & Education MPhil Programme at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK, where she is also the Chair of Arts & Creativities Research Group. As a practising artist she has also written, performed and directed more than twenty one-woman shows.

JJ Chan is an artist in (re-)search for alternative spaces beyond aggressively progressive capitalist time, seeking new worlds from the ashes of the present. They are Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston School of Art and co-convener of the Material:Pedagogy:Future research network, based across Kingston University, Bath Spa University, and the University of the Arts, London, UK.

Blurb

This edited book considers the vital position of artistic research in the landscapes and ecosystems of new materialism(s) and post-humanism(s), in and for higher education. The book aims to satisfy an urgent desire for change in the ways we link artistic and critical research practices, asking what new ways of thinking and creating for twenty-first century artistic and educational contexts we need in order to address the kinds of global complexities we face. Organised around five key themes including fictioning, reading, embodying, inhabiting and folding, the book acts as an entry point for academics, artists and scholar-practitioners to participate in the shaping of new forms of artistic research and practice that are relevant, participatory, and that urgently address the kinds of complex issues emergent in our twenty-first century context. In doing so, the book makes a key contribution to the development of emerging inter- and transdisciplinary artistic research practices across a range of fields, responding to the question - what kinds of research and practice worlds do we wish to create in times of urgency, crisis and complexity? 

Annouchka Bayley directs the Arts, Creativities & Education MPhil Programme at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK, where she is also the Chair of Arts & Creativities Research Group. As a practising artist she has also written, performed and directed more than twenty one-woman shows.

JJ Chan is an artist in (re-)search for alternative spaces beyond aggressively progressive capitalist time, seeking new worlds from the ashes of the present. They are Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston School of Art and co-convener of the Material:Pedagogy:Future research network, based across Kingston University, Bath Spa University, and the University of the Arts, London, UK.