Creation-as-Research: Critical Making in Complex Environments
21/09/20 1:34 PM start time :
Chapman, O. & Sawchuk, K. (2015). Creation-as-Research: Critical Making inComplex Environments. RACAR : Revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review, 40 (1),49–52. https://doi.org/10.7202/1032753ar
READING NOTES (H3)
- creation as research
- “ontological question of what constitutes research in order to make space for creative material and process-focused outcomes”
- critical making, creation-as-research, practice-led research, digital humanities
- Garnet Hertz – “how hands-on productive work—making—can supplement and extend critical reflection on technology and society” (open source hardware movements)
- Tim Ingold – Making – “pays attention to what the world has to tell us”
- Massumi/Manning – act of making – “places value on relational qualities instigated through making and highlights how unexpected and even unknowable its outcomes can be”
- creation is not necessarily art, aesthetics part of every day life
- critical disabilities studies, process of using technology as art participation to highlight inaccessibility grows beyond anticipated visions (megafone, mapping inaccessibility to collaborative-performance-resistance), reverberations
- sense-based scholarship, making performance, staging events, holding workshops, crafting, (-ing, doing) as tools for learning about abilism
INTERESTING CITATIONS AND DEFINITIONS (H3)
Wittgenstein,
mobile media lab (mml),
Samuel Thulin, Griselda Pollock,
Media archaeolgy – https://alisonreikoloader.wordpress.com
Garnet Hertz, “Critical Making,” 2012, http://www.conceptlab.
com/criticalmaking. See also Matt Ratto, “Critical Making:
Conceptual and Material Studies in Technology and Social Life,”
The Information Society 27 (2011): 252–60.
Erin Manning and Brian Massumi, Thought in the Act: Passages in
the Ecology of Experience (Minneapolis, 2014).
An Encuentro, “part academic conference, part performance festival,”
is organized every two years by the Hemispheric Institute
of Performance and Politics. For Encuentro 2014, see http://www.
concordia.ca/events/conferences/encuentro-en.html.
For more information on the Performing Disability/Enabling
Performance working group at Encuentro 2014, see The Disability
Performance Working Group, “Work Group Statement,”
12 September 2014, http://mia.mobilities.ca/encuentro/workgroup-
statement/. Participants, in no particular order, included
Tamar Tembeck, Yvonne Schmidt, Carola Garcia, Janet Gibson,
Margaret Ames, Ashley McAskill, Danielle Peers, Faye Ginsberg,
Lindsay Eales, Kelsie Acton, Koby Rogers Hall, Maria Schirmer,
Heather Vrana, Véro Leduc, Laurence Parent, Jennifer Jimenez,
Stephen Sillett, Baraka de Soleil, and Eduardo Farajado.
POST-READ (H3)
Doing as a tool for scholarship, learning about the world by creating reverberations.