Becoming World: Walking as Research-Creation

Research-creation is an experimental site where art practice, theoretical concepts, and research coalesce to form new dimensions of knowledge. Movement is at the heart of research-creation and like a heart, the artist-scholar must expand and contract across disciplines, performing an uncanny dance that traverses notions of within and without, intuition and intellect, theory and practice. My presentation explores research-creation as a more-than-human methodology informed by new materialisms and posthumanisms, which I will bring to bear on walking research.

Julie Gemuend is an artist-researcher working at the crossroads of visual arts and philosophy. Her practice is aligned with a number of intersecting artistic movements that emerged in the 1960s, including performance-based video and land art. In her work, Julie harnesses posthuman philosophies and research-creation methodologies to explore our entanglement with the natural world. By probing the edges of identity and environment, interiority and exteriority, and the places where the two merge, Julie…