2022_Internal Seminar: Mapping Your (Artistic) Research Context
20.5.2022
"Mapping Your (Artistic) Research Context" was a half-day seminar and workshop developed by WONA member Åsa Sterna. It aimed at exploring how theories, methods and practices based on new materialism, philosophy of immanence, situated knowledge and partial perspective can be used as concwptual tools to critically explore and analyse the context of one’s own research practice from an ethical perspective. In addition to this, the idea was also to investigate how/if Sámi Duodji can open up for and deepen aspects of these theories.
The concept of the seminar/workshop was based on three different texts: selected parts of Donna Haraway’s "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective, Jane Bennett's "Vibrant Matter a political ecology of things," and extracts from niilas hilander’s book nomadtekst (published with kunsthall Oslo, 2022. From different perspectives, these texts address important ethical issues by analyzing and criticizing established ideas and traditions linked to the notion of knowledge production in Western culture.