The trouble with research-creation

Failure, play and the possibility of knowledge in aesthetic encounters

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12213705
AutoresDina Georgis (Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada), Sara Matthews (0000-0001-8373-4875, Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume36
Fascículo6
Páginas1039-1055
Data de publicação2021-02-24
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09518398.2021.1888164
OpenAlexW3130179743
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas33

This paper reflects on a research-creation project that investigates the ways in which surveillance is experienced by youth as an embodiment that might be difficult to articulate in words but rather expressed affectively, through emotion and social practice. Our argument is that the aesthetic intervention provoked by research-creation can instantiate encounters that capture surveillance as an ineffable experience of everyday life. We situate our methodological claims in a concrete case study that considers youth engagement with a commissioned contemporary art project. Drawing on the writings of child and youth psychoanalyst W.D. Winnicott, we theorize the importance of a facilitating environment to create the conditions for young people to freely and playfully express meanings they make in their encounters with art. Research-creation suggests a perspective of resistance and failure as productive and constitutive of the possibilities of coming to know, both for the research subjects and ultimately for the authors in their orientation to research inquiry

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Epistemology · Everyday life · Intervention (counseling · Perspective (graphical · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Visual arts · Art Education and Development · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology