Abstract
AERATE 2025 brings together diverse approaches to artistic research at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. The event consists of several exhibitions and a symposium.
This exhibition presents the research methods developed in the last design experiment of Luis Vega’s doctoral thesis. The experiment, 'Translocal Pottery' (2021–22), was a remote collaboration project organized in six locations during the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. It explores collective pot-making across spatiotemporal divides, contributing a diffractive methodological approach for practice-led research. This approach foregrounds the material effects of doing the same differently and illustrates how to investigate ‘practice’ as a shared thing in the making. The exhibition documents how this practice came into being, decentering the perspective of the practitioner-researcher to account for multiple voices and positionalities. Documented here are pots made of locally foraged wild clays along with photographs, geospatial visualizations, conversations, and video stills. All of these artifacts constitute methodological devices that functioned as means of diffraction in action: they served to investigate how social, material, and analytical boundaries in practice-led research are not fixed or predetermined but continually negotiated and always in the making.
This exhibition presents the research methods developed in the last design experiment of Luis Vega’s doctoral thesis. The experiment, 'Translocal Pottery' (2021–22), was a remote collaboration project organized in six locations during the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. It explores collective pot-making across spatiotemporal divides, contributing a diffractive methodological approach for practice-led research. This approach foregrounds the material effects of doing the same differently and illustrates how to investigate ‘practice’ as a shared thing in the making. The exhibition documents how this practice came into being, decentering the perspective of the practitioner-researcher to account for multiple voices and positionalities. Documented here are pots made of locally foraged wild clays along with photographs, geospatial visualizations, conversations, and video stills. All of these artifacts constitute methodological devices that functioned as means of diffraction in action: they served to investigate how social, material, and analytical boundaries in practice-led research are not fixed or predetermined but continually negotiated and always in the making.
| Original language | English |
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| Media of output | Art medium |
| Size | Installation |
| Publication status | Published - May 2025 |
| Event | AERATE: Artistic Research at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture - Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture , Espoo, Finland Duration: 5 May 2025 → … Conference number: 1 https://www.area.aalto.fi/participants |