Assembling Hanoi: Metamorphosis of Photographic Images
(2025)
author(s): Lorena Bañares
published in: HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
Interested in how photographs are constituted, this exposition situates itself in between materialities of photography to discover how photographs are actualized. Using photography as artistic research practice, it uncovers how matters, sounds, bodies, and machines intra-act within the practice of photography. The inquiry challenges the bifurcation between the outside/inside of the frame, rather it emphasizes its fluid nature. It delves into the cosmogenesis of a photograph exploring the multiple folds and transformations in actualizing a photograph revealing the intricate and dynamic assemblages of humans and non-humans from the outside folding with the inside. Thinking with Gilles Deleuze's concept of the Folds, the exposition was able to surface layers upon layers of bodily and material folds that trouble the traditional notion of photographs as images separated from the outside. In the middle of its messiness, the exposition was able to develop an Applique technique as a method of knowing that emerges from this artistic research practice. What came out are layers of images that describe photography as performative movement of matters and bodies, a metamorphosis of infinite images while navigating the rich culture of Vietnam’s Hanoi capital.
Coming Slowly to Writing with the Earth, as an Earthling
(2021)
author(s): Hanna Guttorm
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
This article illustrates the slow coming to writing with the Earth inspired by both Indigenous ontologies and artistic research as well as post humanist, poststructural and new materialist theories. How does my thinking-feeling-sensing-moving body-mind-language become, or always already is, an Earthling, a habitant of this planet, in the era of super-complexity, in the need of turning the gaze towards the more-than-human(ist)? And were does this becoming/being (conscious) take this “me”? And how does writing and thinking emerge, when one has been waiting long enough?
