31.025 - Beyond In/Visibilities: Working With and Through Visual Methodologies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session is a conversation between participatory action researchers and artists, discussing critical approaches to using visual images in our work. Through various fields and frameworks - including visual studies, critical place inquiry, haunting, and critical race studies - we offer a critique of image-making and visual methodologies that re/produce violent regimes of representation. Rather than doing away with visual materials altogether, we rework visual methodologies to explore truth-making in research and intervene on dominant forms of representation. Each presenter shares their strategies for using the visual as theory, process, and evidence, from the perspectives of art and participatory research.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Papers

• Between "Black Annotation" and "Black Reduction": Artistic Strategies of Working With Archival Material - Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

• Miles Behind the Wheel: A Visual Study of Spatial Mismatch in the Mid-Hudson Valley - Deanna Del Vecchio, University of Toronto; Eve Tuck, University of Toronto

• Through Our Lens: Black and Indigenous Youth Making Sense of Movements and Place - Sefanit Habtom, University of Toronto; Eve Tuck, University of Toronto

• Ghost Ship: Ghostly Aesthetics, Border Regimes, and Politics of Place - Moira Hille, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Discussant

• Victoria G Restler, Rhode Island College