Race and the Forms of Knowledge

Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research

Ben Spatz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2024
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4659-4 (ISBN)

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A boldly innovative work that interrogates the form and meaning of artistic research, examining its development within the context of predominately white institutions that have enabled and depoliticized it while highlighting its radical potential when reframed as a lineage of critical whiteness practice.

Enacts a radically interdisciplinary intersectionality to position performance-based research in solidarity with decoloniality

This boldly innovative work interrogates the form and meaning of artistic research (also called practice research, performance as research, and research-creation), examining its development within the context of predominately white institutions that have enabled and depoliticized it while highlighting its radical potential when reframed as a lineage of critical whiteness practice.

Ben Spatz crafts a fluid yet critical new framework, explored via a series of case studies that includes Spatz’s own practice-as-research, to productively confront hegemonic modes of white writing and white institutionality. Ultimately taking jewishness as a paradigmatically “molecular” identity—variously configured as racial, ethnic, religious, or national—they offer a series of concrete methodological and formal proposals for working at the intersections of embodied identities, artistic techniques, and alternative forms of knowledge.

Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research takes inspiration from recent critical studies of blackness and indigeneity to show how artistic research is always involved in the production and transformation of identity. Spatz offers a toolkit of practical methods and concepts—from molecular identities to audiovisual ethnotechnics and earthing the laboratory—for reimagining the university and other contemporary institutions.

Ben Spatz is a reader in media and performance at the University of Huddersfield.

Note on Lowercasing
Introduction: Materialities in Artistic Research
Chapter 1: Molecular Identities
Chapter 2: Whiteness and the Racialization of Knowledge
Chapter 3: Audiovisual Ethnotechnics
Afterword: On Death and Ceremony
Acknowledgements
Works Cited

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2024
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8101-4659-2 / 0810146592
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-4659-4 / 9780810146594
Zustand	Neuware