Multispecies Ethnography Artistic Methods Conference, Australian National University, Canberra
Creative and Sensorial Entanglements in a Multispecies World
In a shared multispecies world, what happens when realities intermesh and give rise to myriad unforeseen and innovative paths? A critical understanding of such entanglements is imperative, both practically and speculatively, as they have the potential to spark countless connections between different beings. The focus of the third Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methods (MEAM) conference will be on multisensorial entanglements, focussing on interconnected creative paths stemming from a simple touch, a compassionate glance, a cherished sound, the taste of the familiar, or scent of the Significant Other. We invite presentations on the values and complexities of sensorial and artful methods in more-than-human-oriented research.
Themes
sensory methods | dissemination of results | art-science collaborations | Indigenous and decolonial art practices
Key Questions:
How do sensorial methods enable new understandings of multispecies relationality vis-à-vis how do more-than-humans influence and shape our creative processes?
How should we rethink the relationship between the author and the audience as we try to communicate and disseminate research beyond standardized research articles, reports, and books?
What are the benefits of and contradictions in art-science-technology multimodal collaborations?
In what ways do Indigenous, non-Western, and decolonial art practices expand or challenge the premises of multispecies studies?