Rewriting Postcards: Experiments in Collaborative Transnational Curation

Siobhán McGuirk

doi:10.31901/24566780.2020/14.1-2.345

Rewriting Postcards: Experiments in Collaborative Transnational Curation

Studies on Home and Community Science ◽

10.31901/24566780.2020/14.1-2.345 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (1-2) ◽

Author(s):

Siobhán McGuirk

Keyword(s):

Creative Process ◽

Critical Reflection ◽

Transnational Exchange

ABSTRACT Since their invention, picture postcards have played a key role in circulating racist and imperial ideologies. In this paper, the researcher explores how experiments in producing and exchanging postcards used in the Global Gender and Cultures of Equality (GlobalGRACE) project attempted to subvert traditional anthropological and colonial perspectives. Drawing on examples created for the exhibition Exchanging Cultures of Equality held in London in 2018, the author discusses how GlobalGRACE researchers in six different countries individually and collectively sought to disrupt and challenge historical imaginaries using postcards. The creative process required them consider how they might differently visualize, articulate, and publicly share ideas about their work and field sites while also asserting the value of transnational exchange. The researcher argues that critical reflection on the tensions and challenges that arose from this transnational collaborative experiment are both productive and necessary in informing further and new decolonising engagements with postcards

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Ying Chen's Critical Path: The Writer's Search for a New Perspective

Nottingham French Studies ◽

10.3366/nfs.2016.0146 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 55 (2) ◽

pp. 158-173 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gabrielle Parker

Keyword(s):

Creative Process ◽

Special Interest ◽

Critical Reflection ◽

Cultural Landscapes ◽

Critical Path ◽

The Self ◽

Creative Project ◽

Critical Engagement ◽

Female Protagonist ◽

New Perspective

Ten years after Quatre mille marches. Un rêve chinois (2004), La Lenteur des montagnes (2014) reasserts Ying Chen's enduring critical engagement with the creative process. Chen has interrogated her own personal trajectory as a woman and a writer, more specifically as an ‘écrivain migratoire’ (her phrase): ‘Je vis la migration et l'écriture comme une seule et même expérience.’ Régine Robin's desire to ‘fictionnaliser l'inquiétante étrangeté que crée le choc culturel’ (1993) might be at play in Chen's series of novels ended with La Rive est loin (2013). However, it is the parallel quests of the female protagonist and that of the writer unfolding and evolving alongside that are of special interest. Having relinquished familiar bearings and language, both are seeking a new perspective and a new voice. If dis-location is at the heart of the exilic experience, writing is a way not only of re-grounding the self but also of bringing together old and new cultural landscapes. This essay will examine how critical reflection in its dialogical form has always been intertwined with Chen's creative project and informs it.

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Sonic Art as Critique of the Listening Act

Leonardo Music Journal ◽

10.1162/lmj_a_00968 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 39-43

Author(s):

Camille Robinson

Keyword(s):

Research Methods ◽

Creative Process ◽

Critical Reflection ◽

Schema Theory ◽

Art Making ◽

Heuristic Research ◽

Sonic Art ◽

Immanent Critique

In this article, the author describes an approach to structuring sonic art as a critique of listening and as stimulus for critical reflection on listening, which was devised for the project Listening Art: Making Sonic Artworks that Critique Listening. Presented are an overview of the project’s methodology—integrating schema theory, immanent critique and heuristic research methods into the creative process—and discussion of two artworks and findings.

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