Knowings and Knots presents a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the methodology of research-creation and asks how those who make knowledge think about and value it. Not just a method but a site of ongoing experimentation around what counts as knowledge, research-creation is a meeting place of academia, artistic creation, and the wider public. The contributors argue that academic institutions and funders must recognize research-creation as innovative knowledge-making that leaps over the traditional splitting of theory from practice while considering how gender/feminist studies, Indigenous practices, and new materialism might inform and develop the conversation. Through this book, readers can transform the way they experience both art and education.
Contributors: Carolina Cambre, Owen Chapman, Paul Couillard, T.L. Cowan, John Cussans, Randy Lee Cutler, Petra Hroch, Rachelle Viader Knowles, Natalie Loveless, Glen Lowry, Erin Manning, Sourayan Mookerjea, Natasha Myers, Simon Pope, Stephanie Springgay, Sarah E. Truman
Preface | Natalie Loveless
Foreword | Owen Chapman
First pairing
1 | Open and Wide: Figuring Digestion as Research-Creation (Provocation)
Randy Lee Cutler
2 | Tasting Notes: Gastroenterological Ecologies and Working Knowledges
(Response)
Petra Hroch
Second Pairing
43 | From No-ing to Knowing, from Naughts to Knots (Provocation)
Paul Couillard
75 | Crisis of Literacies: How Does the Orchid Cite the Bee? (Response)
Carolina Cambre
Third pairing
97 | Anthropologist as Transducer in a Field of Affects (Provocation)
Natasha Myers
127 | Intermedia Research-Creation and Hydrapolitics
Counter-Environments of the Commons (Response)
Sourayan Mookerjea
Fourth pairing
161 | Provoking Failure: Un-Settling a Research-Creation Framework
(Provocation)
Glen Lowry
191 | Collaboration, Dialogues, and Wild Knowledge (Response)
Rachelle Viader Knowles
Dialogues
211 Research-Creation as Interdisciplinary Praxis
Natalie Loveless in Conversation with Erin Manning
221 The Intimacies of Doing Research-Creation
Sarah E. Truman in Conversation with Natalie Loveless, Erin Manning,
Natasha Myers, and Stephanie Springgay
251 Demonstrating the Ineffable: Paul Couillard in Conversation with T.L. Cowan
265 Special Investigations
Randy Lee Cutler in Conversation with John Cussans
277 “Dear Simon…”
Letters back and forth, between Simon Pope, Glen Lowry, and Rachelle
Viader Knowles on Creative Practice–Led Research
299 Afterwords: Research-Creation and the University in Knots
Natalie Loveless
305 Contributors
313 Index
