Seeding Actions

Polina Golovátina-Mora

The exposition shares the collaborative multispecies journey and addresses the issue of art, art-based research and of art-based research publishing. The three processes are seeing as intra-activity between multiple species, materials, media. It does not have a goal as destination but is driven by curiosity and care for and with each other. This ever-expanding becoming creates ever new world and possibilities and so the new knowing-being. The exposition is a map that combines different tracing and it is up to the reader to follow any direction they prefer at the moment.

This publication is a collaborative practice that unfolds the potential and the meaning of collaboration in academic, artistic and everyday life.

Collaboration is a dynamic multilayered practice: it expands in many directions simultaneously including ever new contributors.

1. We thought to explore collaboration between three of us - Tone, Sunniva and Polina. But what does it mean? Three human women? three persons? three educators? three artists? three backgrounds - educational, artistic, interests, family, ethnic? three different constantly changing networks? At once all that came into play.

2. While we started writing down our thoughts, exchanging thoughts in conversations and chats, we noticed that they are intra-acting (Barad 2007), enhancing, reassembling each other (Deleuze and Guattari 2005).

3. With every new graphic, sonic, visual, textual or any other element in the exposion, new meanings emerge as they intra-act, contributing to the argument, unfolding it, deconstructing our understanding of it.

4. The editors, peer-reviewers, readers - they are part of this practice.

We offer different ways of reading or following our collaborative journey of making sense as we proceeded with working on the exposition; in this unfolding the unintended lineal begining-end / cause-effect logic dissolved itself even more.

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