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The Eco-Mesh Approach: A Sustainable Methodology for Socio-Culturally Interrogative Artistic Research (2020)

Charulatha Mani
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One of the most striking features of Artistic Research is that apparently disjointed issues including pressing calls to action from social, ethical, political and cultural perspectives can organically unfold, evolve, and shape interdisciplinary academic discourses through the centralised lens of artmaking. It thereby creates a holistic picture of research in a manner that only an artist’s singular perspective can yield. A methodology approach that looks from the enmeshed and messy microcosms of ecologies at interplay to the broader macrocosms of the world, through the lenses of socio-cultural interrogation and ethical accountability, I argue, presents an sustainable model for a decolonised artistic research ethos to emerge. According in this publication, I offer "an ecomesh approach" to achieving a framework for "socio-culturally interrogative artistic research" with music and culture as my two key modes of inquiry. As a female native culture bearer of South Indian Classical music now also active within the sphere of Western academia, I feel that I have an ethical responsibility towards the ways in which culturally contingent aspects of my music and culture are represented in and communicated to the world (both in education and artmaking). I leverage my insider/outsider position to problematise aspects of power, belonging, and ownership in global ecologies of dissemination and reception of material and material labour.
typeresearch exposition
keywordssocially engaged art, culture, intercultural, music, ecologies, practices
date23/03/2019
published08/06/2020
last modified08/06/2020
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationQCRC
copyrightDr Charulatha Mani
licenseAll rights reserved
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/679814/679815
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.679814
published inRUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
portal issue14. Ecologies of Practice


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