Abstract
ABSTRACT This article discusses the contributions of two individual research-creation projects focussed on the practice of painting and the matter of paint, emergent trans-disciplinary discussions regarding critical posthumanities, and new materialism. As an epistemological field, artistic research pursues knowledge in subjective, constructive and affective dimensions. It searches for new forms of understanding the world that do not reproduce existing modes of thinking, seeking to disrupt established research conventions regulating how the world is explored. Through reflections on the process of painting from a new materialist perspective, we define acts of painting as assemblages of human and non-human entities formed through complex intra-actions within a dynamic of becoming. Painting as practice is an embodied process of non-verbal material thinking, capable of enabling practitioners and viewers of artworks to experience, actualise and re-enact traces of affective registers. The article concludes with the proposal that painting practices within a new materialist framework enable modifications of personal affective registers contributing to transformations of the self and subjectivities.
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