<i>Doing art and doing cultural geography: The</i> fieldwork/field walking <i>project</i>1

Phillips, Perdita

doi:10.1080/0004918042000249458

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“…Within this burgeoning area of work, geographers have learned from an 'artistic intersection with "geographical" practices' (Hawkins, 2013, p. 13) to develop practice-led research projects both as artists (Boyd, 2016;Crouch, 2010;Yusoff, 2008) and as geographers in collaboration with artists (for example, Enigbokan & Patchett, 2012;Foster & Lorimer, 2007;Hawkins & Lovejoy, 2009). Meanwhile artists themselves have also taken up a geographic skill set (for example, see Phillips, 2004), while geographers have expanded their technological research apparatus to creatively use visual and audio technologies (Gallagher, 2015;Garrett, 2010;Merchant, 2012) enabling Patchett (2015), for example, to utilise video for documenting taxidermists at work. Geographers drawing on creative or artistic practice as part of their research processes have done so for varying effects.…”

Section: From Experimental Geographies To Geographies Of Touchmentioning

confidence: 99%

A touching experiment: Tissue culture, tacit knowledge, and the making of bioart

Straughan

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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In this paper I present an experimental project carried out at The University of Western Australia's art and science organisation, SymbioticA. The paper looks to the embodied practice of learning to make bioart through consideration of the tools and protocols required in the making process. In so doing, the paper traces through the process of “making” by attending to the sense of touch in the laboratory. As an analytical guide, I work through Polanyi's concept of tacit knowledge, which I approach through a focus on the sense of touch, to consider the ways in which proximate knowledge is generated at SymbioticA between artist, objects and subjects. This is knowledge that not only emerges to enable the experimental project, but which also re‐works it. Such an approach provides mechanisms for close consideration of the various actants with which knowledge is generated. In so doing, I offer a post‐phenomenological account of embodied practice in the space of the laboratory to think through the roles of the somatic senses and non‐human others, as well as artists themselves, in the acquisition of knowledge at SymbioticA. Deploying an experimental project as research method is, I argue, a valid methodological manoeuvre for geographic studies into experimental spaces such as the laboratory as it enables unforeseen lines of inquiry to emerge through “doing.”

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Section: From Experimental Geographies To Geographies Of Touchmentioning

confidence: 99%

A touching experiment: Tissue culture, tacit knowledge, and the making of bioart

Straughan

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Place, as such, becomes constructed through a responsiveness of the body to the landscape. Likewise, Phillips’ (2004) project in the Kimberly region of Australia combines ethnographic, artistic, and scientific methods along with walking to think about the wildness of place. She argues that the field or site of research is ‘re-corporealised’ by walking because it is a bodily not a visual practice (Phillips, 2004: 158).…”

Section: Embodiment In Walking Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Likewise, Phillips’ (2004) project in the Kimberly region of Australia combines ethnographic, artistic, and scientific methods along with walking to think about the wildness of place. She argues that the field or site of research is ‘re-corporealised’ by walking because it is a bodily not a visual practice (Phillips, 2004: 158). The bodily practice of walking, Heddon and Myers (2014) maintain, can be demanding, severe, and gruelling.…”

Section: Embodiment In Walking Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Transmaterial Approach to Walking Methodologies

Springgay

Truman

2017

Body & Society

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Bodily methodologies that engage with the affective, rhythmic, and temporal dimensions of movement have altered the landscape of social science and humanities research. Walking is one such methodology by which scholars have examined vital, sensory, material, and ephemeral intensities beyond the logics of representation. Extending this rich field, this article invokes the concept trans to reconceptualize walking research through theories that attend to the vitality and agency of matter, the interconnectedness between humans and non-humans, the importance of mediation and bodily affect, and the necessity of acknowledging ethico-political responsibility. While theoretical and empirical research about embodied, emplaced, and sensorial relations between moving bodies and space are well developed in the field of walking studies, their entanglements become profoundly altered by theories of trans – transcorporeality, transspecies, and transmaterialities. Taking up trans theories we experiment in thinking-with a sonic art performance, Walking to the Laundromat, which probes bodily, affective, and gendered labour.

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“…Because this perspective on landscape looks at practices that cannot be conveyed in words, it presents difficult methodological challenges. In their review of non-representational methods, Claire Dwyer and Gail Davies (2007) point to experimental modes of experiencing the city drawn from work by the Situationists (Pinder, 2005) and psycho-geography (Bassett, 2004;Philips, 2004). They point to various other methods of research that ‗foreground embodied experience' including working alongside participants to understand manual labour in India (phenomenologically rather than discursively) (Davies and Dwyer, 2007: 259).…”

Section: The Socio/natural Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%