Location
Deakin University Searby Room studiosLanguage
engNotes
The exhibition formed one aspect of the conference proceedings and bringing together exhibitors/practitioner-researchers from UK, USA, NZ, CA and AUS that focused on the process-oriented and preparatory work that pertains to a way of addressing embodied modes of enquiry. A pdf of exhibition catalogue is available online. https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/bok2019/features/Research statement
Background
Thinking Rooms for Enacting Knowledge posits that practice-led research is a vital way of acquiring and producing knowledge—that is experiential, experimental, and occurs through making. The exhibition allowed for ways to enactment (rather than present) knowledge concerning art and embodied cognition. The works addressed the conference provocation: How does art shift the way knowledge and thinking processes are acquired, extended and distributed? The diverse exhibitors were invited to exhibit work analogous to their thinking-making processes.
Contribution
The curatorial approach aligns with the growing research on the intersection of art practice, cognitive science and phenomenology. The exhibition, when combined with—the keynote conversations, “audit traces” and peripatetic presentations—allowed the conference to take on aspects of research creation by focusing upon the embodied process of knowledge transfer. The exhibition extended the conference focus on diversity and all forms of ability, in which the works could performed/enacted unique modes of knowledge production.
Significance
BoK2019 was second of an ongoing series of international conferences of Art and Embodied Cognition, prompting international interest in the next BoK conference (Univ of Cincinnati) and a conference on artists, Arakawa and Gins (Kansai University in Osaka 2021). The exhibition highlighted the importance of encountering diverse modes of acquiring and producing knowledge in order to encourage knowledge transfer and of understanding creative practice as a way of engaging with complexity from within a dynamic system. Additional research outcomes include a peer-reviewed publication in IDEA journal (2020).Publication classification
X Not reportableExtent
Curator Exhibition of 8 works by nationally and internationally recognised practitioner in visual art, dance, textile and architecture. Section, organisation, curation, hanging and production of catalogue of work associated with second international - Body of Knowledge: Art and Embodied Cognition conference at Deakin June 2019.Editor/Contributor(s)
Keane JPublisher
Deakin UniversityPlace of publication
Deakin University Searby room studios
