Paper short abstract:

I propose to contribute excerpts from my PhD project, in which I develop an experimental writing practice, informed by performance writing and theater practices, for building dialogue across differences with participants from two different artistic research projects.

Paper long abstract:

Artistic research practices are troubled, exactly because they aim to explore possible synergies between academic and artistic practices aimed at gaining knowledge (Borgdorff, 2012). In my PhD project, I argue that staying with this trouble is necessary for being able to understand artistic research as hybrid practice. And that this requires deliberate reflection. How exactly to practice this reflection within the (shifting) context(s) of artistic research projects is not clear. Therefore, I calibrate an experimental writing practice, informed by performance writing and theater practices, in order to accompany different project participants from two artistic research projects that I studied in the field. This way, I experiment with forms for building dialogue, empathically, across (art/academic) differences (Tröndle and Warmers, 2011).

Hence, my dissertation is an attempt at writing an imaginative and analytical story that includes various forms of dialogue (in different languages). I use the ‘materials of language’ (Law, 2004) to explicate and respond to the multivocality that I found within the projects in the field. This way, my project connects to the call in the ‘Routledge Handbook of ASTS’ “… for a set of tools to study collaborations that value the positions of both the artist and the scientist in considering the results of such enterprises.” (Rogers and Halpern, 2021, p.39).

When participating in this panel I am happy to bring and share excerpts from my dissertation that could serve as a starting point for discussing examples of my experimental writing strategies.