TY - BOOK

T1 - Interleaving Practices and Critical Kits

AU - Dalziel, Ross

PY - 2023/1/27

Y1 - 2023/1/27

N2 - This practice led PhD thesis proposes the method of Interleaving Practicesas an approach to interdisciplinary work around art and science. In my artpractice, artists work alongside science and other disciplines; they try to dowhat scientists do, copying their practice, re-empractising. Disciplines arenot bridged seamlessly as if epistemologically flat, no impossible consensus isarrived at or antagonistic borders erased. Interleaving is supported by whatI call ‘Critical Kits’ a term developed with art collective Re-Dock. Making these kits fold-in electronic components, documentation and raw materials, but also things normally unacknowledged, historical material traces, care, social relations, model organisms, supply chains, games and feelings. They also fold-in exclusions, externalities and political commitments. These kits are not art objects but by-products convivial to novel coalitions.Making critical kits as participant observers reveals how diverse practicesstick together but stay separate; that interact, but without synthesis; theyinterleave with each other without erasing difference. Like the multi-speciescollaborative labour of leavening bread Interleaving Practices is a generousstrategic method for art and science work in precarious worlds.Interleaving Practices responds to calls for slower methods of knowledgeproduction that consider the politics of affect and care. It contributes tocritique and praxis in technoscientific making in the fields of art, ‘art-science’,social science, and science and technology studies (STS). Making as InterleavingPractitioners, means research participants, artists, makers and scientists gettheir hands dirty, sticky and wet and reveal how their practices offer alreadyexisting critical spaces with rich opportunities for learning. InterleavingPractices not only contribute to interdisciplinary collaboration and inventivesocial science, but challenge practitioners in these fields to include and betransformed by an embodied politics of care, critique, intervention and struggle.

AB - This practice led PhD thesis proposes the method of Interleaving Practicesas an approach to interdisciplinary work around art and science. In my artpractice, artists work alongside science and other disciplines; they try to dowhat scientists do, copying their practice, re-empractising. Disciplines arenot bridged seamlessly as if epistemologically flat, no impossible consensus isarrived at or antagonistic borders erased. Interleaving is supported by whatI call ‘Critical Kits’ a term developed with art collective Re-Dock. Making these kits fold-in electronic components, documentation and raw materials, but also things normally unacknowledged, historical material traces, care, social relations, model organisms, supply chains, games and feelings. They also fold-in exclusions, externalities and political commitments. These kits are not art objects but by-products convivial to novel coalitions.Making critical kits as participant observers reveals how diverse practicesstick together but stay separate; that interact, but without synthesis; theyinterleave with each other without erasing difference. Like the multi-speciescollaborative labour of leavening bread Interleaving Practices is a generousstrategic method for art and science work in precarious worlds.Interleaving Practices responds to calls for slower methods of knowledgeproduction that consider the politics of affect and care. It contributes tocritique and praxis in technoscientific making in the fields of art, ‘art-science’,social science, and science and technology studies (STS). Making as InterleavingPractitioners, means research participants, artists, makers and scientists gettheir hands dirty, sticky and wet and reveal how their practices offer alreadyexisting critical spaces with rich opportunities for learning. InterleavingPractices not only contribute to interdisciplinary collaboration and inventivesocial science, but challenge practitioners in these fields to include and betransformed by an embodied politics of care, critique, intervention and struggle.

KW - Maker Culture

KW - technoscience

KW - Makerspaces

KW - STS (Science and technology studies) Biomedicine

KW - biomedical

KW - Algae

KW - politics

KW - strategy as practice

U2 - 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1928

DO - 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1928

M3 - Doctoral Thesis

PB - Lancaster University

ER -