Diffracting New Materialisms

This 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 way 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 to address the kinds of global complexities we are facing. Organised around five key thematic sections that deal expressly with different methodologies for artistic research, including fictioning, reading, embodying, inhabiting and folding, the edited 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 complexity 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 a range 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?