Abstract
Keywords:
Workshops, curatorial methods, speculative, worldbuilding, quantum, artistic practice, transformative methodologies, social practice, transdisciplinary exploration, participatory art
This article frames workshops as material discursive curatorial methods drawing on ideas from new media discourses and materialist feminism. It takes as a case study a series of speculative world-building workshops by artists and physicist Libby Heaney delivered to three groups of participants: young people, scientists, and artists, drawing on specific artefacts from the last one. The workshops were commissioned as a material discursive form to unpack the artist’s practice and invite audiences to workshop ideas and themes within it. The outcomes demonstrate the capacity of workshop methods in the context of transdisciplinary technoscientific artistic practices for futuring, speculation, and world-building with emerging technologies while generating discourse.
- Bilyana Palankasova, University of Glasgow, The University of Edinburgh, Glasgow, United Kingdom