Outpost 280922
Peripheral Vision : Relationality.
Categories and things may make it easier for us to grasp reality, but they also hide its underlying complexities.
Robert Cooper, 2005.
Developing a constitutive nature within practices.
Qualitative Reseachers.
Entangled practices are productive, and who and what are excluded through these entangled practices matter, different intra-actions produce different phenomena.
It is in and through an understanding of these entangled practices presented by Barad that we can begin to understand how diffractive readings can help us in our work as qualitative reseachers to produce knowledge differently.
Interactions Matter.
Spatial Agency.
Walking
Wayfinding in the City.
Thinking intra-actively.
Thinking with Barad's intra-action helps us fashion an approach that re-inserts the material into the process of analysis. It is a reclaiming of the material absent in its modernist limitations. It is the work of Karen Barad and other named as 'new materialists, or material feminists' to ask how our intra-action with other bodies (both human and nonhuman) produce subjectivities and performative enactments.
Such questioning shifts our thinking away from how performative speech acts or repetitive bodily actions produce subjectivity, but also how subjectivity can be understood as a set of linkages and connections with other things and other bodies, both human and nonhuman.
The Discursive Text/Material.
Phenomenology is interested in the now, what we see, how we perceive, and how those perceptions shape or come the world that is constitutive both of our environment and us.
The Keatsian concept of negative capability, that of being with uncertainty, of seeking to transcend and revise contexts, to reject constraints and open up dialogue as a throughfare for all thoughts, to ask questions and develop empathy.
John Keats 1795-1821.
Local artists and writers respond to the University of Winchester's
Magdalen Hill Archaeological Research Project.
On-site, co-directors Dr Simon Roffey and Dr Phil Marter talk about process.
A negative, destructive archaeology of taking away, of context sheets for a cut (negative) or a deposit (positive): how the processes are physical and sensory as well as interpretative, how their work is forensic, piecing together, visceral, more instinct than intellect, tactile and haptic, sculptural, revealing, never final, and as much an art as a science.
The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists.
The artist's role here is to bring their own kind of knowledge setting aside logic and reason, to use the imagination and senses, to express through body and mind, the self, the messiness and uncertainty evoked by these material traces, mystery and wonder.
Colin Renfrew, Figuring It Out, 2003.
Spatial Diffractions in Interior Design.
A final diffraction is to think about how the office space itself creates a diffraction.
The office door, the opening, the threshold, can be viewed as the place through which waves pass, creating a diffraction.
This diffraction passes both ways: in inviting those who enter and those who fail to enter.
This opening further serves to reconstitute the office door as a threshold to be crossed, or as a threshold that welcomes. One invites, the other excludes.
We presented examples of how Sera and Cassandra were produced differently through intra-actions with office space, other bodies, clothing, and furniture, and similarly how their entanglement with these material fixtures resulted in a mutual constitution of the material and discursive.
It is through an enactment of a diffractive analysis and a re-thinking of our relationship to/with data, and to/with the material in our research sites, that we see much productive potential for research methodologists.
Project Spaces/Presentations.
Diagrams, maps and charts are all a symbolic depiction that emphasises mapping relationships.
Keywords: Agency, Spatial Agency, Practice, Making, Architectural Body,Relational Movements,Outreach, Urban Walking, Interactions, Cultivation Field, Foraging, Finding, Gathering, Harvesting, Organism, Person, Environment, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art,
.jpg)
