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Description
This interdisciplinary and performative presentation will introduce artistic inquiry methods through composting utilizing speculation, movement, and collective unity. The presentation relies on collective research knowledge, collected and analyzed in a large international research project that brought together visual artists, media artists, dancers, educational philosophers, and researchers and educators from various fields. The research project has employed a variety of different media, artistic processes and different technologies within its composting methodologies. In this presentation we approach the method of artistic composting through two concepts: Affective Spaces and Permaculture. We will incorporate a participatory element into our session where attendees will have the opportunity to collectively engage in the artistic composting methodologies.
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Dr. Mira Kallio-Tavin
is Distinguished Professor of Art in Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. Kallio-Tavin focuses her research on critical artistic and arts-based research in questions of disability, non-human agency, and critical animal studies. Her artistic practice takes forms through video and painting. She is co-coordinator of a research network ‘composting’ Speculative Spaces for Artistic Methodologies. Kallio-Tavin is Vice-President of the International Society for Education through Art and is co-chair of the Art Education Research Institute. She is Associate Editor of the Studies in Art Education, and founder of the International Disability Studies, Arts and Education network.
Mirka Koro (Ph.D., University of Helsinki)
is a Professor of qualitative research at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University. Her scholarship operates in the intersection of qualitative inquiry, methodologies, philosophy, experimentalism, and socio-cultural critique. She has published in various qualitative, methodological, and educational journals. She is also the author of Reconceptualizing qualitative research: Methodologies without methodology (2016), Knowledge production in material spaces: Disturbing conferences and composing events (2022) and co-editor of Disrupting data in qualitative inquiry: Entanglements with the Post-Critical and Post-Anthropocentric (2017) and Intra-Public intellectualism: Critical qualitative inquiry in the Academy (2021).
