Crafting knowledges: Approaches Through Botany, Climate, and Multispecies Interactions
This panel explores artistic practice as a method of knowledge production. The panel’s title, “knowledges,” is lowercase and plural to underscore that knowledge is produced on multiple registers, from seminar spaces to post-studio practices and the daily negotiations and politics of everyday life. When forms of knowledge go unexamined, however, their historical and political perspectives can get smuggled in and naturalized. Academic forms are not neutral vessels and should, therefore, be the subject of critical evaluation as much as content. Since artists are trained from the outset to be critical of form, they might have something to offer researchers in more discrete disciplines and fields. This second part of a two-part panel looks specifically at artistic practices engaged with botany, climate, and multispecies interactions.
Field of Study:
Indigenous peoples
Disability
Feminisms
Social History
Curatorial Studies
Chair:
Joey Orr,University of Kansas - joeyorr@ku.edu