Ok to add own reading for this process if they feel the bibliography does not fulfill their interests/needs…Opportunity to clarify questions on the readings, demonstrate their understanding of the methodologies covered in class, and add personal insights or extra research information to the issues discussed… Find a case study example of art/design/media/curatorial practice to illustrate discussion of, and questions about, the theory in the specific article.
- What questions do I have about research-creation?
- how does research (knowledge making) as a (speculative) event emerge in the practice of / how is it demonstrated in the practice of a disability artist? (Springgay)
- What is it about a practice that makes it research-creation? Can you apply research-creation as a framework to a practice that does not consider itself that way?
- how do disability artists take daily-practice, incremental/partial/diffuse experimentations and translate the EVENTS into other forms of publication to get at different aspects of research?
- how do disability artists honour emergent polydisclinary drives and how does that emerge in their work?
- what makes someone a disability artist? (presenting as such)
- what does function does research-creation serve for disability artists? assertation that this kind of knowledge production is valuable.
- what does this have to do with iris haeussler?
- Florence Hasard, “The psychologist on our team suggests that she was haunted by her past experience as a nurse during WWI, which lead her to focus on the fragility and ephemerality of the human body.”
- artist statement – artists echoed in work of Florence Hasard, often women artists who become institutionalized – Séraphine Louis, housecleaner institutionalized for “chronic psychosis,” – Agnes Richter, seamstress institutionalized for acute delusional episodes (https://florencehasard.org/artist-statement)
- fictionalizing as a means of creating distance between private and public, how to create distance between the self and work, how to get out from under yourself…
Artists
Adelaide Damoah – endometriosis, performance, decolonization
Deborah Padfield – Inside the Metaphor, photography research-practice, presentation of work via writing and presentation, co-collaboration with service users
Deirdre Logue
Vanessa Dion Fletcher https://www.dionfletcher.com/
Katherine Araniello – Sick, Bitch, Crip Dance – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJVgQysT_f8
Additional Readings
Scarry, E. (1985) The body in pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World.
Lynne Beckenstein (2017) Listening to color: a set of propositions on pain as feminist aesthetic, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 27:3, 283-300, DOI: 10.1080/0740770X.2017.1365439
Bissell, David. “Obdurate Pains, Transient Intensities: Affect and the Chronically Pained Body.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, vol. 41, no. 4, Apr. 2009, pp. 911–928, doi:10.1068/a40309.
Rice, C., LaMarre, A, & Mykitiuk, R. (2018). Cripping the ethics of disability arts research. Catriona Macleod, J. Marx, P. Mnyaka, & G. Treharne (Eds.), Handbook of ethics in critical research: Stories from the field (pp. 257-272). London: Palgrave.
Rice, C. Multimedia Storytelling Methodology: Notes on Access and Inclusion in Neoliberal Times. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, University of Waterloo. 2020.