Full Description
Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods explores the potential of multimodal art practices in doing qualitative research beyond the human. Through artful endeavours such as creative writing, photography, filmmaking, drawing and poetry, the volume aims to overcome the shortcomings of conventional, anthropocentric and logocentric methods in multispecies research. To move beyond the limitations of language and linguistic communication, the contributors build on the long tradition of visual and sensory anthropology while also engaging in and consciously reflecting on innovative, creative and artistic methods. Taking a multispecies and more-than-human perspective - ranging from snow and trees to animals and an AI oracle - the volume investigates ways to touch, speak, listen, feel, walk with and reach across different species.
This book and accompanying multimedia website advance the frontier of publishing artful expressions of academic research by highlighting how creative practices can be the very core of data collection, analysis and the communication of research. As such, the artful pieces are not 'just' illustrations of textual representations, but are practised as part of an iterative process of data collection and analysis.
The contributions by well-established scholars, early career researchers and postgraduates who carry out new, cutting-edge research offer an engaging range of analytical, methodological and empiric orientations, while conversing at the intersection of multispecies ethnography and artful methods.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Andrea Petitt, Anke Tonnaer, Veronique Servais, Catrien Notermans and Natasha Fijn
1. WRITING A SONG FOR AIIA. SPECULATIVE FICTION IN AN ART-SCIENCE COLLABORATION
Text: Catrien Notermans and Anke Tonnaer
Visuals: Marcel van Brakel
[essay, poetry and AI visuals]
2. EARTH SWIMMERS / ON CAPTURE: A PRACTICE-BASED ETHNOGRAPHY OF MOLE CATCHING AND FILM MAKING IN NORTH YORKSHIRE.
Hermione Spriggs in collaboration with mole catcher Nigel Stock
[essay and film]
3. THE SOUNDS OF SNOW: AN EXPLORATION OF HUMAN-SNOW RELATIONS IN ILULISSAT, KALAALLIT NUNAAT
Nanna Sandager Kisby
[essay, photos and sound]
4. THE ENDURING PRESENCE OF THE EUCALYPTUS TREE: A PHOTO ESSAY
Natasha Fijn
[photo essay]
5. ARTISTIC CO-DISCOVERY IN MULTISPECIES COLLABORATION
Bartram+Deigaard
[essay and image composites]
6. ATTENDING TO FIREBUGS: ARTISTIC INVESTIGATIONS FOR RESPECTFUL CORRESPONDENCES
Charlotte Dorn
[photo essay]
7. FARMING COWS AND WORMS
Simone de Boer and Hanna Charlotta Wernersson
[essay and multimedia montage]
8. TO TOUCH LIGHTLY IN PASSING
Merlijn Huntjens, Nina Willems and Leonie Cornips
[essay, photos, sketches and poetry]
9. FREAKS OF NATURE: USING DEEP REFLEXIVITY TO UNDERSTAND TRANSGENICS
Lisa Jean Moore
[essay and photos]
10.INTRODUCTION
Andrea Petitt, Anke Tonnaer, Veronique Servais, Catrien Notermans and Natasha Fijn
1. WRITING A SONG FOR AIIA. SPECULATIVE FICTION IN AN ART-SCIENCE COLLABORATION
Text: Catrien Notermans and Anke Tonnaer
Visuals: Marcel van Brakel
[essay, poetry and AI visuals]
2. EARTH SWIMMERS / ON CAPTURE: A PRACTICE-BASED ETHNOGRAPHY OF MOLE CATCHING AND FILM MAKING IN NORTH YORKSHIRE.
Hermione Spriggs in collaboration with mole catcher Nigel Stock
[essay and film]
3. THE SOUNDS OF SNOW: AN EXPLORATION OF HUMAN-SNOW RELATIONS IN ILULISSAT, KALAALLIT NUNAAT
Nanna Sandager Kisby
[essay, photos and sound]
4. THE ENDURING PRESENCE OF THE EUCALYPTUS TREE: A PHOTO ESSAY
Natasha Fijn
[photo essay]
5. ARTISTIC CO-DISCOVERY IN MULTISPECIES COLLABORATION
Bartram+Deigaard
[essay and image composites]
6. ATTENDING TO FIREBUGS: ARTISTIC INVESTIGATIONS FOR RESPECTFUL CORRESPONDENCES
Charlotte Dorn
[photo essay]
7. FARMING COWS AND WORMS
Simone de Boer and Hanna Charlotta Wernersson
[essay and multimedia montage]
8. TO TOUCH LIGHTLY IN PASSING
Merlijn Huntjens, Nina Willems and Leonie Cornips
[essay, photos, sketches and poetry]
9. FREAKS OF NATURE: USING DEEP REFLEXIVITY TO UNDERSTAND TRANSGENICS
Lisa Jean Moore
[essay and photos]
10. ETHNOGRAPHY OF WORKING COWHORSES: RHYMING SENSORY METHODS
Andrea Petitt
[essay and poetry]
AFTERWORD
Karin Bolender ETHNOGRAPHY OF WORKING COWHORSES: RHYMING SENSORY METHODS
Andrea Petitt
[essay and poetry]
AFTERWORD
Karin Bolender
