“Splitting Defense: A Methodological Journey into the Material Basis of Practice-Based Research” presented by Heidt and Kuruş

Symposium:

• ISEA2022: 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art
• More presentations from ISEA2022:  

• Complexity Research and Practice

• Splitting Defense: A Methodological Journey into the Material Basis of Practice-Based Research

• Michael Heidt
• Eli Kuruş

Venue(s):

• CCCB: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

• This text details a practice-based research project which was partially materialised within the art-installation Splitting Defense. Splitting defense is a mixed media artwork, comprising an audio narrative embedded within a physical installation. It places the recipient into the realm of a future society, remembering the horrors of the present. While evoking a languorous sense of belonging to the future, it casts an eerie light on current practices of feeling, empathising, caring, ignoring, and dividing. The artwork thus playfully engages topics such as gendered patterns of valuing and devaluing phenomena of emotional labour.

Project Website:

• https://ellikurush.com/?page_id=659

Keywords:

• practice-based research
• new materialism
• diffraction
• digital installation art

Category:

• Long Paper
• Paper