Join the UGA Qualitative Research Program for the first UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series of the semester: ‘Artistic Inquiry and Methodological Surprise: Experimenting with What Research Can Do’ presented by Dr. Mira Kallio-Tavin.
When: Friday, September 25th from 12PM – 1PM Eastern Time.
Where: Zoom
Register at: https://bit.ly/UGAQL15
Abstract: Methodological experimentation has a long history in qualitative and postqualitative inquiry, including ongoing efforts to challenge and rethink predetermined methods. This talk enters these ongoing conversations through artistic inquiry. Drawing from recent collaborative research projects and emerging work on Immanent Artistic Inquiry, I explore what artistic practices might contribute to methodological experimentation when thinking-making-doing or artistic production is understood not only as a research method, but as a mode of sensing, relating, and inquiring.
Through examples of collective artistic experimentation, I consider how inquiry can take shape through relations among concepts, theory, materials, bodies, affects, environments, technologies, and more-than-human lives. Artistic practices can create conditions for staying with uncertainty and methodological surprise, allowing inquiry to change direction through what emerges in the inquiry rather than only through what was anticipated in its design. My collaborative work with methodological composting, for example, has explored how concepts and practices can be recycled, reconfigured, layered, and transformed through collective thinking-making-doing.
In this talk, I consider artistic inquiry as a space for methodological curiosity and experimentation. I return to my three most recent research projects and publications, some of which are still emerging. I invite participants to think with questions about what methods can do, where they might become insufficient, and what artistic practices make possible for living with the uncertainty, relationality, and emergence of inquiry.
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