TY - JOUR

T1 - The ontological politics of artistic interventions

T2 - Implications for performing action research

AU - Beyes, Timon

AU - Steyaert, Chris

PY - 2011/3

Y1 - 2011/3

N2 - The aim of our article is to reflect upon intervention as a threshold where art and action research meet. For this, we will relate calls to apply the capacity of the performing arts to the social sciences to examples of neo-avant-garde art practices which show a renewed interest in (intervening into) the everyday production of public space. We recount and analyze two vignettes of artistic interventions to illustrate the politico-aesthetic power of art to interfere with how the social is assembled and to provoke new constellations of what is visible and sayable. Such experimental forms of engaging with the public raise the issue of a minoritarian politics of participation. Rather than being just another tool in the researcher’s toolkit, taking into account these practices can illustrate and inform certain dimensions of what could be called performative action research.

AB - The aim of our article is to reflect upon intervention as a threshold where art and action research meet. For this, we will relate calls to apply the capacity of the performing arts to the social sciences to examples of neo-avant-garde art practices which show a renewed interest in (intervening into) the everyday production of public space. We recount and analyze two vignettes of artistic interventions to illustrate the politico-aesthetic power of art to interfere with how the social is assembled and to provoke new constellations of what is visible and sayable. Such experimental forms of engaging with the public raise the issue of a minoritarian politics of participation. Rather than being just another tool in the researcher’s toolkit, taking into account these practices can illustrate and inform certain dimensions of what could be called performative action research.

KW - Transdisciplinary studies

KW - Media and communication studies

KW - Digital media

KW - Digitale Kultur

KW - Digitale Kulturen

KW - Medienkultur

KW - Medienkulturen

KW - Medientheorie

KW - Medienwissenschaft

KW - Medienwissenschaften

KW - Netzkultur

KW - neue Medien

KW - Soziale Medien

KW - digital Culture

KW - digital cultures

KW - media culture

KW - media cultures

KW - media studies

KW - media theory

KW - net culture

KW - new media

KW - social Media

KW - Cultural studies

KW - action research

KW - art

KW - intervention

KW - method

KW - minoritarian

KW - ontological politics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79952634011&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1476750310396944

DO - 10.1177/1476750310396944

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 9

SP - 100

EP - 115

JO - Action Research

JF - Action Research

SN - 1476-7503

IS - 1

ER -