Procedures or processes

When positioned side by side, artistic work and qualitative research work can often have parallel objectives in deepening and nuancing understanding about the social world, while also trying to communicate that understanding to a broader audience. In other words, we want people to learn something new, to recognize something distinctive about the world they live in. Yet, we use very different approaches and methods. Often, efforts to combine artistic practice and scientific work are undertaken as surface-level collaborations, without having time to understand each other’s assumptions about how to work and warrants for working the way that we do.

The goal of this workshop is to learn from each other about how we work – what sort of practices, procedures and justifications (for generating a finished product, and also for gaining funding) come into play in making our interventions. The group gathered to workshop together comprises artists and researchers who have all had experience working on ‘ineffable’ matters, like embodiment, care, and multi-species interactions. Our objective will be to produce short (500wd, 5-7 images) (co-)created pieces about what we learn from each other as well as to create networks for generating advice on how to talk about our practices across artistic and scientific work, and/or when we seek funding in the future.