Artistic Essaying Research and Pedagogy Group Jez Coram Emily Huurdeman Expanded, hybrid and experimental forms of essaying in practice-led research and pedagogy Central Questions for the group: 1. To what extent should we expand the essay through hybrid and experimental forms? 2. How should we produce essays in our current personal-aesthetic-political-technological conditions of crises? 3. To what extent can hybrid and experimental forms of essaying act as practice-led artistic research? 4. How can essaying as practice-led artistic research inform pedagogical approaches? The intention for this group is to bring together practitioners and theorists working and researching in the arts, or related fields, to consider and develop creative critical approaches to hybrid and experimental forms of essaying based on the above questions (as a starting point). The aim is to develop an international collective of individuals concerned with the potentiality of creative critical essaying, and how these hybrid and experimental forms of essaying may exist as practice-led artistic research and praxis. Then, how these praxes may inform pedagogical approaches. At its core the group is intended to be inclusive, accessible, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and even off-disciplinary to encourage tangential and lateral associations and pathways through individual and collaborative praxis. When / where: Five online meetings a year (Zoom or Teams), and one potential face to face meeting as part of the conference Provisional structure for meetings: 1 or 2 talks, presentations, or shows of work in progress (Individual or collaboration), based on group refinement of the research questions / areas of inquiry, followed by discussion. How: I would take up the role of organising the meetings and admin for the group. I would be looking for someone to share responsibility for the group and support facilitation. Potential contributions: As a group agree plans for collective exhibitions, conference talks and papers, articles, and special issues.

Laruelle Marlène in her book Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (2012) made the remark that for several waves of Russian intellectuals in exile (revolution, Stalinist repression, dissidents of the post-Stalinist period), esseistics became a political tool, the only possibility of political action, its substitute.

On Artistic essaying - welcome!

Main question: How can artistic essaying be a pedagogy?

Proposal: How can essayistics practices transform the interactions/relations between ways of knowing?

we would like you to add to the map:

- a personal anecdote

- an essayistic and/or theoretical quote;

- an example of an essayistic work that speaks to you.

Transformative practices?

Keywords: crisis, power

Relevance

Introduction

(collective chain)

week 7 denis

week 8 Emily

week 9 Anita

week 10 Peter / David

Ways of knowing?

Keyword: doubt, experiment

Pedagogy Otherwise (book, ed: Alessandra Pomarico) ^{_{+ pdf}}

Haris:

connecting autobiographical with exploration of theoretical concepts, while inluding a deep engagement with the body and senses.

engaging with material on multinle levels

freedom to move across literary genres, different modes of expression & storytelling, allowing the most effective way to convey ideas and experiences. i.e., auto referential & creative non fiction, grounded in concrete lived experiences

Example is the poet Alice Oswald reading her essay on Keats

on Essay & Pedagogy

grounds and connects the local and immediate to wider ideologies and what's happening worldwide

students can speculate and make unlikely connections

Robin Deacon

White balance

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/-g7WEcaogsQ

Example of Artistic Research in Essay Film format

Film Europium by Lisa Rave, only few frames and interview available. Film was shown at transmediale 2018.

https://www.vdrome.org/lisa-rave-europium/

Alan Sekula - Fish Story & The Forgotten Space

Federico García Lorca Theory and Play Of The Duende

about publication

Adorno (1958) The Essay as Fom

I still have the same printed article, since 10 years, when I did my Bachelor and when I first got hooked on the essay. I have re-read it over and over since then.

F for Fake

Orson Welles

The essay form, notable for its tendency towards complication (digression, fragmentation, repetition, and dispersion) rather than composition, has, in its four-hundred-years history, continued to resist the efforts of literary taxonomists, confounding the laws of genre and classification, challenging the very notion of text and textual economy.

Michael Renov, The subject of documentary, Vol. 16 (U of Minnesota Press, 2004), 70.

Nora Alter - Translating the essay into film and installation

Ana
an example of an essayistic work that speaks to you.

essay film Melancholy Fragments (73 min.) and the book Melancholy Fragments: On Essay Film and Thinking

Eriksson, Patrik

https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/61696

Grada Kilomba

YouTube Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUaOwfmA9w

performance artworks from

Rabih Mroué

Before Falling Seek the Assistance of Your Cane

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oEQFDOXHrc

Academia by Guillermo Gomez-Peña at PSi 19

denis, thank you for sharing the pedagogy otherwise reader - an interesting text that looks useful for us. And I was taken by a phrase in the description of the Freehome University that could have been written by us, last week! 'generating new ways of sharing and creating knowledge by experiencing life in common'

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Pedagogy Otherwise (book, ed: Alessandra Pomarico) ^{_{+ pdf}}

Rabih Mroué

Before Falling Seek the Assistance of Your Cane

Academia by Guillermo Gomez-Peña at PSi 19

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Pedagogy Otherwise (book, ed: Alessandra Pomarico) + pdf

Rabih Mroué

Before Falling Seek the Assistance of Your Cane

Academia by Guillermo Gomez-Peña at PSi 19

Pedagogy Otherwise (book, ed: Alessandra Pomarico) ^{_{+ pdf}}