Andy Hoff

Arts-based researcher exploring comics, climate justice, and the future
Canada
research interests: Climate Activism, arts-based research, posthumanism, Anthropocene, Media Arts, speculative fiction, transmedia, Visual Culture, graphic novel, Practice-as-research
affiliation: University of British Columbia
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Andrea Hoff (she/her) is an interdisciplinary media artist and writer. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, where she explores climate justice with young people through the creation of speculative comics. Her published writing and peer-reviewed articles focus on topics including arts-based climate activism, Czech comics, neurodiversity, speculative fiction, posthumanism, future housing, and inclusive design. Her films and animations have screened at the Berlinale Talent Campus, FIFA World Cup. Winnipeg Short Film Festival, NYU Film Festival, Quickdraw Animation, and the global collective One Day on Earth. She is currently working on a graphic novel on the intersections of neurodiversity and academia and collaborating on an interactive media project centred on radical ocean ecologies and cold-water swimming. You can find more of her work at https://www.andreahoff.com

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  • Dialogic Liminality: Cartographies of the Inbetween (2023) author(s): Rachel Horst, Andy Hoff published in: Research Catalogue
    A conversation is a mapping of the spaces in between and within subjectivities, geographies, environments, soundscapes, and silences (of voice and thought); in conversing we abide by certain rules of negotiation while breaking others of propriety, manner, logic. In this exposition we aim to explore and enact the liminalities that occur in an artistic dialogue over the course of a series of weeks and reflections. In our capacity as settler scholar feminist artists and researchers, we are interested in understanding and performing scholarship via artistic practice. For this exposition, we negotiated a series of rules for our weekly inquiry. These rules became the map through/by/against which we navigated and re/defined our scholarship, disciplinarity, and research practice. In this work, we create places of overlap and divergence in a fluid “feeling cartography” (Cram 2016), which is “a mode of encounter and trans-ing, entanglement and movement without destination or conclusive points of arrival” (143). This is also a performance of autotheory, which Fournier (2021) describes, as a term “for works that exceed existing genre categories and disciplinary bounds, that flourish in the liminal spaces between categories, that reveal the entanglement of research and creation, and that fuse seemingly disparate modes to fresh effects” (2). Liminality as a theoretical concept emerges out of a diverse body of entangled life work and struggle. We are thinking with those feminist scholars and artists of colour, Anzaldúa and others, without thinking over the specificities of experience. As Barad notes, “Anzaldúa understood the material multiplicity of self, the way it is diffracted across spaces, times, realities, imaginaries” (2014, 175). We take up this material multiplicity in our artistic practice through a lens of posthumunism, which we see as a theoretical pathway into those spaces between agencies and atoms that may simultaneously define and undo us.
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