FASoS Colloquium ‘Presence in (research) practice’

Wednesday 5 June 2013

15.30 – 17.30 Spiegelzaal, Soironbuilding, 1003

Title: Presence in (research) practice

Speakers: Ike Kamphof, Ruud Hendriks, Louis van den Hengel, Renée van de Vall

Abstract

The central claim discussed in this meeting is that research in Arts, Media and Culture covers a wide range of phenomena and experiences that cannot be understood properly without a concept of presence – presence referring to an experience or state of (unmediated?) being-in-the-world and becoming with others. Taking their participatory research in museum arts, health care settings and public space as a point of departure, the presenters will focus on both visual and performative tactics of presence. They will do so on the level of the object of study: What is meant with “presence” in our respective research contexts and why is it important? What kind of preparations are conducive to allow for the world and/or other people to present themselves? What kind of constraints offer the other a chance to transform the self? And why does it often seem so hard to find resonance with the world? The presenters will also approach presence in a reflexive way, focusing on me thodological issues such as: how can we as, researchers, recognize presence when it is there? Can one somehow see or sense it? How does presence itself ‘work’ as a method? What research and writing strategies help us to prepare for the unexpected to affect us? How do we give the object of study a chance to take us by surprise?

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