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- Convenors:
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Ana María Guzmán Olmos
(RWTH Aachen University)
Gudrun Rohde (RWTH Aachen)
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- Format:
- Traditional Open Panel
Short Abstract
This panel engages with the question of the epistemic claims made via politico-aesthetic objects, and the practices of knowledge associated with them. It explores collaborations between art, activism, and research as well as the democratization of knowledge in Living labs.
Description
Collaborations between art and activism create hybrid research objects and distribute expertise across different disciplines and practices. Activism and art are engaged in practices of the disclosure of truth, that is, what Fuller and Weizman (2021) have called, “politically powerful conception of truth”. These practices are involved in the production of new epistemic objects situated across various disciplinary boundaries. What kind of objects are these hybrids between evidence and aesthetic materials? What kind of knowledge claims are made with them and by whom?
On the other hand, aesthetics research cultures expand scientific practices by involving artists as knowledge producers (Star Rogers, 2022; Star Rogers et.al., 2021) or via art-based research (Leavy, 2025). One example are living labs. Living Labs are research spaces where various actors collaborate generating new knowledge from diverse sources and epistemic cultures. Art-based actions are one of the integrated formats that help researchers in the living labs community provide a platform for actors with different forms of expertise. Art plays a twofold role here: experimenting with the boundaries of usual driven paths and opening up for aesthetic experiences. How can art provide a different lens to epistemic objects?
How can communities get involved in the process of producing knowledge of themselves, and also reclaiming the right to truth claims? How is expertise distributed across different knowledge producing practices? This panel engages with the epistemic claims made via politico-aesthetic objects, and the practices of knowledge associated with them. It invites perspectives in the politics of expertise, hybrid knowledge practices, and reflections on the epistemology of objects that cross the boundaries between science, art, and activism.
Our panel will contribute to the topic of the conference by addressing how communities deal with systems of oppression by reclaiming the right to know, to speak about truth and justice.