Stephanie SpringgayUniversity of Toronto/ University of New South Wales

stephanie.springgay@utoronto.ca

“Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas” (Whitehead 1967).

Image: Swintak Artist’s Broth, from The Artist’s Soup Kitchen www.artistsoupkitchen.com

“Cleave the notion of the body beyond the human. Connect it to all that co-combines with it to create a movement of thought” (Manning, 2013).

“[There is an] urgent need to supplement humanist methods that rely on generating talk and text, with experimental practices that amplify other sensory, bodily and affective registers and extend the company and modality of what constitutes a research subject” (Whatmore 2006).

Experience understood relationally becomes “a distributed, immanent field of sensible processuality within which creative variations give rise to modifications and movements of thinking” (Derek McCormack, 2013, p. 25).

• Fieldwork as experimentation

We need to shift from thinking about data as “experienced,” towards data as a becoming entangled in relations; data as something we do, not something that is. This requires a commitment to fieldwork in which experience gives way to experimentation, where it “becomes a field of variations in which to experiment with the questions of how felt difference might register in thinking” (McCormack, 2013, p. 11).

The how of research?

Site: Procedural Architecture (Arawkawa and Gins, 2002)

Documentation: Anarchiving as Choreographic Objects (Forsythe, 2008; Manning, 2013)

“We are all made of lines,” write Deleuze and Guattari, “we are not only referring to lines of writing. Lines of writing conjugate with other lines, life lines, lines of luck or misfortune, lines productive of the variation of the line of writing itself, lines that are between the lines of writing… living lines, flesh lines” (Deleuze & Guattari, 2004, p. 215).

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