Knowings and Knots

Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation

Edited by Natalie Loveless
Contributions by Carolina Cambre, Owen Chapman, Paul Couillard, T. L. Cowan, John Cussans, Randy Lee Cutler, Petra Hroch, Rachelle Viader Knowles, Glen Lowry, Erin Manning, Sourayan Mookerjea, Natasha Myers, Simon Pope, Stephanie Springgay, and Sarah E. Truman
Categories: Social Sciences, Sociology, Education
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Paperback : 9781772124859, 384 pages, December 2019
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781772125047, 368 pages, January 2020
Ebook (MobiPocket) : 9781772125054, 368 pages, January 2020
Ebook (PDF) : 9781772125061, 368 pages, January 2020

Table of contents

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

Description

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

Awards

  • Winner, Book Design of the Year | Alberta Book Awards, Book Publishers Association of Alberta 2020

Reviews

"This book opens up to the doing and undoing involved in the generation of research-creation, the makings of new forms of knowledge, and what it is to work at the interstices -- the interstices of thinking-feeling, of bodies, human, nonhuman, entangling with places and other communities, ecologically."

- Jennifer Clarke, The Journal for Artistic Research, July 2020

"The editor and authors engage themselves, each other, and wider communities creating a wealth of intricate insights, understandings, and possibilities about research-creation... Knowings and Knots promotes research-creation discourse and contributes to research discussions and debates in 21st century universities. Its value to K-12 educational environments, teachers, and teacher educators comes from persons sharing ideas about arts and humanities research-creation here."

- Robert C. Kleinsasser, The Journal of Educational Research, July 2020