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oa Re-enacting/mediating/activating: Towards a collaborative feminist approach to research-creation
- Source: Technoetic Arts, Volume 21, Issue Women in Art and Science, Oct 2023, p. 175 - 191
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- 08 Nov 2022
- 30 Aug 2023
- 24 Jan 2024
Abstract
Worldwide interest in understanding art and creative practices as valid forms of knowledge production has led to the establishment of research-creation as an interdisciplinary academic field in the last twenty years in Canada as elsewhere. Its establishment relates to a growing interest in critical making and technological innovation and to the legacies of feminism(s) and its critique of the power dynamics of knowledge production within academia. This article outlines a series of interactive projects that bring visibility to Latin American women in art, science and technology and speculates on the legacies of feminism(s) in the emergence of research-creation. The four projects discussed build on each other and explore re-mediation, re-activation and re-enactment as part of a collaborative feminist research-creation methodology. I theorize their potential to activate political memory by highlighting how these three approaches to creation share a preoccupation for revisiting the past through repetition, iteration and the facilitation of intergenerational encounters among humans, non-humans and across media and technologies. While discussing the feminist orientation of these approaches, I suggest a critique of dominant modes of knowledge production that have obscured the contributions of Latin American women and offer four research-creation interventions in the media arts archive.
Funding
- The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) (Award 430-2020-00219)
