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Participatory art installation

Abstract:

The Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine project is a sensory ethnography and multimodal research creation study that follows the affective, temporal, and psychosocial challenges of solid organ transplantation in Canada. Experimenting with different methods that destabilize assumptions about il/legitimate forms of knowing, we invited people interacting across our field sites (clinicians, allied health workers, families, patients, visitors) to contribute their own doodles, sketches, and annotations to our project’s more traditional ethnographic field notes. Questions of how to understand and make meaning of these collective notes remain active for our project team. In this exhibition, we will stage an installation of collective field notes gifted to our project by individuals taking part in our sites of ethnographic research and public arts engagement including at art exhibitions, multidisciplinary salons, film screenings, and conference discussion lounges hosted by our team. A series of the collective notes will be threaded and hung in the form of a stabile—a stationary abstract mobile that plays with motion and stasis. We will engage 4S participants to take part in an emergent making practice, inviting viewers to use visual and haptic means of re-ordering and rearranging the notes (making iterations of the stabiles), inviting them to think aloud with us as we consider and reconsider together the meaning and role collective drawings and notations can play in ethnographic and arts-based research. In this way, viewers of the booth will contribute to our own attempts to play with collective practices for knowledge-making.