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Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research - Softcover

Ben Spatz (author)

 
9780810146587: Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0810146584 ISBN 13: 9780810146587
Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0810146584
ISBN 13 
9780810146587
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
320