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Wednesday, 29 January, 9:30AM -12:00PM
Node II: More-Than-Rational Methodologies
Affects of Research: Propositionality and Enactment as Modes of Shared Knowledge Production
Presentation and workshop with Sibylle Peters
In this lecture, Dr. Sibylle tried to bring together performance and cultural and social research, for instance one of the projects that she did is after school clock and time machine. It’s the project to simulate astronauts in which they tried to change their perspective and welcome we live as astronauts on the spaceship of the earth and then invented exercises like flying while lying. Another example is an very interesting ethnographical research, the researchers came into into the school and did psycho geographical mapping with kids based on the context children are used to believe in spirits and ghosts cannot be said. So they asked the kids to draw maps of their school then found out where to look for spirits of the place with the “ghost machine”, the final step is to talk about their feelings and make the spirit amendment as their school community, maybe make a little ghost house for them or they could leave them with the researchers. The purpose is through the process of imagination, discussion and artistic expression, they co-create a better atmosphere for the public space(the institution) and develop citizenship by making changes to the surroundings with each other.
If you are also interested in participatory art based research method, I highly recommend you to have a look at Performing Citizenship,Free download here.
Reference: Wishful Thinking, current works and projects by or with Dr. Sibylle Peters, PhD, retrieved from: https://www.wishfulthinking.eu/