Stephanie Springgay and Sarah E. Truman ‘Research-Creation Walking Methodologies and an Unsettling of Time’
WalkingLab invoke a ‘queer temporality’ through disrupting normative space-time delineations (Truman & Shannon, 2018, p. 62).
this article explore questions of sovereignty, borders, histories, and time through strategies of speculation, counter- cartographies, and anarchiving practices
The research-creation walking events that we focus on in this article are exam- ined in more detail in our book Walking Methodologies in a More-Than-Human World: WalkingLab (Springgay & Truman, 2018). For this special issue, we consider how research-creation walking events can unsettle colonial temporalities and how artistic research can participate in the processes and practices of decolonization.
Dylan Miner (2016) states that the problem with decolonization is its transition from a verb into a noun. As a noun, or a thing, decolonization shifts from an active practice or a way of life to a knowable and ownable thing.
Turions argues that art can play an important role in undoing structures of dispossession through affective and discursive political ges- tures that focus on land, mobility, and access. Writing about affect and its relation to cultural decolonization, Garneau (2013) discusses the extra-rational potential of art. He writes: Art is the site of intolerable research, the laboratory of odd ideas, of sensual and intuitive study, and of production that exceeds the boundaries of conventional disciplines, protocols and imaginaries. . . . It can be a way for the marginalized, refused, and repressed to return.
- this can be thought applied to ecologies – not just the people but all agents that inhabit a given space/site
THINKING RESEARCH 