Exploring Research As Craft

Exploring Research as Craft: A One-Day Pop-Up Exhibition
Sunday March 17, 2019, 2:00 – 5:00 PM
Refreshments will be served

How does the researcher’s hand guide materials in efforts to contribute new understandings about the world around us? How does the artist’s practice press into the intuition of scientific research to draw out non-linear truths and trajectories? How does material gain and define meaning through interdisciplinary efforts?

Exploring Research as Craft collaboratively engages seemingly disparate disciplines through craft, material meaning making, and critical response. Academic siloing and the prioritization of jargon over communication endorse strict and disciplined understandings of science, art, research, and craft. Here, we evince the porous and fluid natures of these concepts. We actively call upon shared language and meaningful encounters to establish links between spaces of differently situated knowledges.

As entanglement and productive friction are increasingly recognized as vital tools within collaboration, there is a growing need to develop practices of intentioned engagement. Here, we reveal the visual dialogue that is possible within and among diverse research practices. Individuals from manifold departments at the University of Georgia have brought together their craft to create new media-based languages for personal history-making, speculative organ generation, virtual reality, performance as embodied re-experiencing, and other visually poetic statements for the deconstruction of traditional disciplinary divides.

This pop-up exhibition is the culmination of the project Exploring Research as Craft: A Workshop Series to Promote Cross-Discipline Communication by Examining Processes of Creating to Approach Questions

 Exploring Research as Craft is graciously supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) and ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art. ICE is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia. ATHICA is a non-profit gallery providing collaborative and community arts space within the Athens, Georgia community.

We thank ICE for its generous support through the 2018-2019 Idea Lab Mini Grant Award. We also thank ATHICA for enthusiastically hosting our pop-up exhibition.

Warmly,

Alden DiCamillo and Cydney Kate Seigerman

 

List of Participants:

Yana Bonday – Lamar Dodd School of Art

Sydney Daniel – Lamar Dodd School of Art

Jennifer Demoss – Integrative Conservation and Anthropology

Max Farrell – Warnell School of Ecology

Savannah Jenson – Franklin College Department of English

Kristen Lear – Integrative Conservation and Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources

Katharine Miele – Lamar Dodd School of Art

Megan Prescott – Franklin College Department of Microbiology

Micah Taylor – College of Environment and Design

Anna Rose Willoughby – Odum School of Ecology