Diffracting New Materialisms: Emerging Methods for Artistic Research in Higher Education

This edited book considers the vital position of artistic research in the landscapes and ecosystems of new materialism(s) and post-humanism(s), in and for higher education. The book aims to satisfy an urgent desire for change in the ways we link artistic and critical research practices, asking what new ways of thinking and creating for twenty-first century artistic and educational contexts we need in order to address the kinds of global complexities we face. Organised around five key themes including fictioning, reading, embodying, inhabiting and folding, the book acts as an entry point for academics, artists and scholar-practitioners to participate in the shaping of new forms of artistic research and practice that are relevant, participatory, and that urgently address the kinds of complex issues emergent in our twenty-first century context. In doing so, the book makes a key contribution to the development of emerging inter- and transdisciplinary artistic research practices across arange of fields, responding to the question - what kinds of research and practice worlds do we wish to create in times of urgency, crisis and complexity?

Annouchka Bayley is an Assistant Professor in Arts, Creativities & Education and Chair of the Arts & Creativities Research Group at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Journal of Education and a Fellow of Darwin College. Annouchka works in the field of artistic research, posthumanisms and new materialisms for the development of Education. She is also a practising artist and has written, performed and directed more than twenty one-woman and ensemble shows internationally.

JJ Chan is Senior Lecturer at Kingston University, UK. They are an artist working across and amidst sculpture, moving image, and writing as art forms. Their work draws from lived experience and stories stolen from eavesdropped conversations on the train and at the bus stop to explore borders of fictions and realities.