INTRA-VIEW digital
A project extension by Doris Ingrisch and Adelheid Mers
The intra-view is an intra-active, embodied world building exercise, collaboratively developed by Ingrisch (Vienna) and Mers (Chicago) on site in Vienna. Intra-views take place dialogically among Ingrisch, a Gender Studies scholar, Mers, an artistic researcher, and invited participants from the field of performance and performing arts. World building can be summarized as boundary-making and unmaking, taking place among agents. Our method explores how we articulate practices from within collaboratively evolving triangulations, taking place across diverse ways of knowing.
While the title, intra-view, is inspired by Karen Barad's writing on performativity as "the world’s iterative intra-activity"(2003, 823), our goal is located in the vicinity of recent discourses about epistemic diversity, taking place across literatures on Art Research/Aesthetics (Mersch 2015, Clavo 2017), and Decolonizing Research Methodologies (Tuhiwai Smith 1999, Betasamosake Simpson 2017). We are deeply concerned about the state of world building today.
Key to our 2019 AR Pilot project was that each invited participant selected the physical setting/staging in which an intra-view was enacted. We learned that the sites most conducive to furthering our explorations were expansive enough to allow for easy mobility, while also affording a measure of quiet, for example a reserved performance practice space, and a gymnasium.
Since 2020, such conditions have been foreclosed. Since then, we have focused on 1) reflection and publication, and 2) adapted other works for digital spaces, while also 3) entering into deepened conversation with colleagues, globally.
As we now find ourselves no longer within an exception, but an ongoing state of distancing, we are forced to ask:
What happens when explorations in dialogic intra-action rely on mediation through digital platforms?
As part of this research extension, we are inverting our laboratory design, now creating digitally facilitated, joint auditory environments that overlay explicitly separate, visual-tactilie-olfactory somatic experiences that are intentionally exercised and referenced. Using mobile microphone headsets, we less rely on quiet and no longer need to be stationary. With access to global digital networks, we no longer need to be co-located. We have long known that scaffoldings, be they languages, cosmogonies, or other architectures, shape world making habits while remaining deceptively in the background. In a world of digital platforms that explicitly splinter our reality, we have an opportunity to forerground their impact while we are still at least somewhat disoriented. At the same time, concepts such as intra-action, particularly when applied in the context of epistemic diversity, as we are doing with the intra-view, will be exceedingly helpful in assessing and reshaping the meaning of agency towards building the world anew.
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Thumbnail: Trajectories in a Cloud Chamber, the core evidence for the local particle nature of individual subatomic entities, that is nevertheless incompatible with the propagation specified by the Schrödinger equation (Image from Gordon Fraser/CERN, http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/28742)