Getting Lost Through the Relational Mail Art of Art/Re-search (T)here

A Decolonizing Methodology

Autores/as

  • Genevieve Cloutier University of Ottawa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29766

Palabras clave:

art, research, relationality, decolonization, getting lost

Resumen

Art/Re-search (T)here is a SSHRC-funded project that creates new understandings of art, research and decolonized processes amongst theories of knowledge. The relational mail art of Art/Re-search (T)here unfolds through post theories of the (post)qualitative posthumanist philosophies and decolonized practices. These disruptive co-compositions happen by getting lost through thing-power, and through the decolonial project of re-turning to the dynamic whole. (T)here, co-conspirators collaborate through art to reimagine re-search. The project’s initial research questions change alongside co-conspirators in transit as binary knowledge is (un)learned and disrupted. As the mail art travels to entangled spaces, processes are risky, glitchy, (un)known, and trans-formed. In letting go of research questions, art/re-search creates trans-formations. The authors put a call to action for re-searchers to work together through art in ways that question the structure of academia and how we come to know/be. Through relational (un)learning and risk-taking, some-thing lost is getting (t)here. 

Biografía del autor/a

Genevieve Cloutier, University of Ottawa

Geneviève Cloutier (she/they) is an artist, facilitator, part-time faculty member, writer, activist, parent, consultant, and settler living on stolen Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. They have a PhD from the University of Ottawa where they co-created art and research to reimagine knowledge systems through relational processes. Art/Re-search emerged as a decolonizing methodology. 

Publicado

2024-09-04

Cómo citar

Cloutier, G. (2024). Getting Lost Through the Relational Mail Art of Art/Re-search (T)here : A Decolonizing Methodology . Art/Research/International:/A/Transdisciplinary/Journal, 9(1), 236–265. https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29766