Art as Research? Roundtable and discussion
The first session of this year’s Interdisciplinary Dialogues at Concordia took place on Friday and, with the theme ‘What is Research?’ to be addressed in a variety of different ways, opened with ‘Art as Research’.
What Is Research?
Session: Art as Research
Roundtable and Discussion
November 6, 2009 1:00pm to 3:00pm LB 659-4The question “what is research” seems immanent to the pursuit of interdisciplinary studies in society and culture. Doctoral students in the Ph.D. in Humanities program engage with a broad range of subject matter as well as a great variety of methodologies and theoretical orientations. This year’s Interdisciplinary Dialogues series addresses the question: how does interdisciplinarity affect our understanding and experience of research?
In the first of a series of sessions, Doctoral Humanities students with a studio component to their doctoral project will reflect on the potentialities and challenges of practice-based research and what “research-creation” means to them.
Panelists:
Emily Rosamond: “Space-Times of Research-Creation”
Randolph Jordan: “Audiovisual Ecology in the Cinema”
Devora Neumark: “Community Art and/as Academic Research”
David Jhave Johnston: “How I Prepared for My Comps by Scanning Books and Compressing Videos”
Joanne Hui: “The Graphic Novel Travel Collage: Multiple Enrootings in a Physical Articulation”
Discussant:
Dr. Owen Chapman (Concordia, Communication Studies)
Panelists and discussant
The panelists were all very engaging and the topics were varied; the discussion was interesting although heated at times. I heard about frameworks for praxis, ecology and empathy, performative research, digital poetics and Bourriaud’s new book (The Radicant). There seemed to me though to be some kind of disjunct between research-based art practice and art-based research practice… Christoph, who had organised the event, described it as a “collective generation of something” which I thought was very apt!
Animated discussion
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