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Re-enacting/mediating/activating: Towards a collaborative feminist approach to research-creation.

Re-enacting/mediating/activating: Towards a collaborative feminist approach to research-creation.

Authors :
Aceves SepĂșlveda, Gabriela
Source :
Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research; Oct2023, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p175-191, 17p
Publication Year :
2023

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1477965X
Volume :
21
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
175008925
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00110_1