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

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2024-01-24
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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.
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DOI: 0.1386/tear_00110_1
Publication title
Technoetic Arts
Document title
Re-enacting/mediating/activating: Towards a collaborative feminist approach to research-creation
Publisher
Intellect
Date
2024-01-24
Volume
21
Issue
Women in Art and Science
First page
175
Last page
191
Publisher DOI
0.1386/tear_00110_1
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