Are you a scholar, artist or practitioner interested in the connections
between the body, intuition and arts practice as a way to imagine
decolonial environmental futures? If so, we invite your contributions to
our panel at next year’s EASST-4S conference at Amsterdam.
Body, intuition and perception in arts-based interventions in decolonial
environmental STS epistemologies and pedagogies
Convenors: Aadita Chaudhury (York University), Rita Valencia (CIESAS
Sureste)
Short Abstract:
Inspired by underexplored aspects of artistic practice and its role in
environmental research, this panel invites traditional papers, artworks and
other creative interventions that examine the place of intuition in
creating a more emancipatory vision of a decolonial environmental STS.
Long Abstract:
The body, perception and intuition can help scientific practitioners engage
with the environment beyond Cartesian dualism separating mind from body.
However, to achieve social transformation, we must reconnect with our
collective sorrows and hopes in a world plagued by war and climate
disaster. It is necessary to go beyond the constant sense of numbness or
the belief that techno-fixes or disciplinary specialists will change what
has as its basis the ontology of separation, competition and individualism,
characteristic of Colonial Modernity (Quijano, 2001). Therefore
decoloniality is a central tenet of this creative intervention. The body’s
relationship to the environment has been ruptured through environmental
harms, colonialism, and cultural conditioning resulting from Cartesian
dualism (Scott 2015; Short 2022; Kowal, Radin, and Reardon 2013).
Consequently, webs of relationality with more-than-human worlds are also
disrupted. Arts practice can work to mend some of these ruptures. For
researchers in science and technology studies (STS), the idea of an
environmental imaginary driven by body-/intuition-based epistemologies
becomes compelling.
We are interested in several ways that intuition, embodiment and perception
may guide environmental inquiry. Tacit knowledges and forms of embodiment
are vital to exploring relationships and encounters between global economic
cores and broader peripheral zones, as well as inter/intra-actions between
peripheral zones. Artistic interventions may be used to map out these
encounters and provide possibilities of practice against the hegemony of
imperial power relations. Rather than global cultures of institutional
science, it is often locally-situated artistic interventions that carry the
potential to subvert normative power structures.
For this panel, we seek traditional papers, artworks and other creative
interventions to engage with ways of knowing often sidelined in the context
of institutional scientific inquiry, namely, the body, intuition, and
perception. We invite contributions that examine the role of intuition in
creating a more emancipatory vision of a decolonial environmental STS.
Link for submission:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14251
Aadita Chaudhury
PhD Candidate, Department of Science and Technology Studies, York University
Graduate Research Associate, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and
Technology, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, York University
Email: aadita@yorku.ca / aaditac@gmail.com
Cell: +44-7862034774
Website: www.aaditachaudhury.com
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