Talk: Embodied Research as artistic practice

Join the artists and curators at KOLO for a discussion and Q+A on the embodied research methodologies that inform their creative practice.

This talk will be held in English only!

Embodied research collapses the forced distinction between the researcher and their research subject, embracing their inherent intertwinement. How does the research transform the researcher, and in turn, what traces of the researcher’s choices — their desires and myopias alike — are impressed into their work?

In this discussion, the artists/researchers scrutinise their bodies as sites of inquiry while simultaneously blurring the boundaries between themselves and the world around them. This is not an exercise in self-obsessed navel-gazing. Instead, the artists/researchers contend with the violent conditions through and under which they conduct their work, conditions imposed by imperialism, technofeudalism, climate breakdown and genocide.

As such, they ask: how does one’s degree of proximity to their research subject shape the very possibilities for research? How does alienation — as produced through displacement, exile and/or hypercapitalist estrangement — delimit the terrain for investigation? And in response, what creative methods can be developed in order to confront this violence, contest inflicted constraints and expand this terrain? Ultimately, the artists consider how embodied research involves them in a never-ending political process of becoming.

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