Abstract
During the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Edinburgh, 2019, we offered an esthetic intervention: two spaces open to delegates in which they could explore and express their interactions with the conference through the assemblage of paper, paint, crayons, scissors, glue, glitter, bodies, breath, memories, thoughts—ineffable and effable. Delegates were invited to produce either individual journals, individual pieces, or contribute to large collective pieces of art. In this article, we follow the lines of flight to create the event and reflect on the process that led up to and continued after the esthetic intervention.
Highlights
IntroductionWe explore the process to construct an environment for the aesthetic intervention
We, Susan, Gabriel, and Tess, follow a line that traces the project Create Art, which we developed for the European Conference of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI), Edinburgh, 2019
Throughout this paper, we reflect with an implicit view of new materialism (Barad, 2003; Bennet, 2010; Braidotti, 2006), the notion of inquiry as activism, along with the Deleuzian concept of line of flight
Summary
We explore the process to construct an environment for the aesthetic intervention This moves us to reflect on the one-day drop-in art space facilitated during the conference where we contemplate the activating space, intensities, and art media. Throughout this paper, we reflect with an implicit view of new materialism (Barad, 2003; Bennet, 2010; Braidotti, 2006), the notion of inquiry as activism, along with the Deleuzian concept of line of flight. This hesitation, movement, and dispersal are reflected in the structure of this paper. In the sections that follow, we narrate the story of our intervention Create Art. In “Incipient Lines,” we describe the moment we first thought of the idea of having a space for art in a conference. In the section on “Activating Lines,” we reflect on our artistic intervention and the idea of activism. The concluding section has our final thoughts summarizing the whole assemblage of events
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