1st Edition

Art-Based Research in the Context of a Global Pandemic

Edited By Usva Seregina, Astrid Van den Bossche Copyright 2023
256 Pages 15 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 15 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 15 Color & 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Living through the Covid-19 global pandemic has changed the way that we experience our lives, the way that we relate to one-another, and the way that we engage with the world. Focusing contextually on the initial lockdowns of the pandemic in 2020, this book proposes that art-based research has a central, illuminative role to play in our understanding of unfolding crises. The changes brought on... Read more

Introduction 

Usva Seregina and Astrid Van den Bossche

PART 1: CONNECTION

1. Wandering with Wonder: From Social Practices to Artistic Practices and Back

Luciana Walther and Carlos Eduardo Félix da Costa

2. Drawing the Group: A Visual Exploration of a Therapeutic Space Online

Helen Omand

3. Collaging Covid Holidays: Using Collage as a Communal Method for Reflection and Research

Usva Seregina and Aurélie Broeckerhoff

4. Performing Forgiveness in the Age of Covid-19: Creating a Hybrid Space for Dialogue and Peacebuilding

Rana Aytug, Tom Gorman, Elly Harrowell and Victoria Thoms

PART 2: CHANGE

5. Living Aesthetics in a (Post)Pandemic World
Laurie A. Meamber

6. Encounters of Nothingness: Dilemmas of the Uncanny Self 

Stephen O’Sullivan

7. Hollowed Out: Creative Coding and the Pandemic Urban Imaginary

Astrid Van den Bossche

8. "Can You Hear Me Now?" Listening and Living in Disruptive (Post)Pandemic Soundworlds

Matthias Bode

PART 3: CONFRONTATION

9. Poetic Reflection (PR): Voices in Pandemic Period
Hilary Downey

10. Faces of Self-Isolation

Usva Seregina

11. Everyone’s a Photographer: Reflections on Photography as Creative Expression through Lockdown

Ekant Veer

12. "Public School Teachers, You All Completely Disgust Me!": How My Fake Trump Fought the Revolt of the Elites in Pandemic-Era Ann Arbor

Rebekah Modrak

Afterword

Astrid Van den Bossche and Usva Seregina

Biography

Usva Seregina is a visual artist and a researcher of consumer culture. Their work focuses on exploring topics of consumerism, consumer agency, and gender performance, as well as developing art-based research methods.

Astrid Van den Bossche is a Lecturer at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. Her work takes literary, historical, and computational approaches to understanding promotional cultures.