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From the abyss to the afterglow: On the practice of vibrant contemplation as a mode of artistic research (2024)

Luiz Zanotello
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Through a form of critical autoethnography, this study diffracts aspects of the author’s artistic practice through the intimate process of mourning to delineate a particular mode of knowledge production within artistic research that queers the relationship between the inside and outside of epistemic and ontological perspectives. The first section considers the abyss as a figure between grief, the unknown, and modes of knowledge production within artistic research. The second section bridges the work of theorising as a form of reconfiguring the world through the study of diffracted light, and further delineates the practice of vibrant contemplation as a method of entangling art practice with theorisation processes beyond a dichotomous opposition between art and science. The final section contemplates the figure of the afterglow as a material-discursive phenomenon that emerges from the temporality of mourning vis-à-vis artistic research. Download Accessible PDF
typeresearch exposition
keywordsmourning, critical auto-ethnography, theorizing, light, diffraction, poetics
date15/07/2024
published15/07/2024
last modified15/07/2024
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationUniversity of the Arts Bremen, Leiden University, Royal Academy of Art The Hague
copyrightLuiz Gustavo Ferreira Zanotello
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1744157/2509165
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1744157
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue32. 32


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1749505 Recording: Afterglow in Venice Luiz Zanotello CC BY-NC-ND
2514449 Diagram: Vibrant Contemplation Luiz Zanotello CC BY-NC-ND
2515886 Graphic: next button Luiz Zanotello CC BY-NC-ND

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