Still.Life: Painting and Slow Inquiry

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Abstract

Slow scholarship reimagines the meaning of being within academic time. While slowing might feel largely aspirational in market-driven institutions, perhaps it is the intervention needed as we face conservative celebrations of anti-intellectualism and artificial intelligence's speed-amplified outputs. In this paper, I describe painting as a slow method, reflecting on a project where I stilled my academic life- in time and spirit. Under Re/membering and Re/imagining, Re/Considering Materials, and Movement in Stillness, I share the sustainable and not-so-sustainable practices I engaged to follow avenues of questioning and memory, transgressing my philosophical comfort zones. Bringing these experiences into view, I invite qualitative inquirers into conversation on making slow knowledge, meanings of being a slow methodologist, and what happens when we still.life.

Author

• Lorien S. Jordan, University of South Florida