Thank you to all who joined us for ASTeRIX\u2019s first Intersections series event of the term, \u201cTeamwork Makes the Dream Work: The Hows and Whys of Artistic Collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Presenter info <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hali Heavy Shield<\/strong>, member of the Blood Tribe of southern Alberta;<\/em> PhD student in visual art and Blackfoot storytelling<\/em> Archibald, Jo-Ann. 2008. Indigenous <\/strong>Storywork<\/strong>: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit. UBC Press.<\/strong> https:\/\/www.ubcpress.ca\/indigenous-storywork<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bennett, Jane. <\/strong>Vibrant <\/em><\/strong>Matter :<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>a<\/em><\/strong> Political Ecology of <\/em><\/strong>Things.<\/em><\/strong>Durham<\/strong>: Duke University Press, 2010. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Assemblages are ad hoc groupings of diverse elements, of vibrant materials of all sorts. Assemblages are living, throbbing confederations that are able to function despite the persistent presence of energies that confound them from within. They have uneven topographies, because some of the points at which the various affects and bodies cross paths are more heavily tracked than others, and so power is not distributed equally across its surface. Assemblages are not governed by any central head: no one materiality or type of material has sufficient competence to determine consistently the trajectory or impact of the group. The effects generated by an assemblage are, rather, emergent properties, emergent in that their ability to make something happen (a newly inflected materialism, a blackout, a hurricane, a war on terror) is distinct from the sum of the vital force of each materiality considered alone. Each member and proto-member of the assemblage has a certain vital force, but there is also an effectivity proper to the grouping as such: an agency of <\/em>the assemblage. And precisely because each member-actant maintains an energetic pulse slightly \u201coff \u201d from that of the assemblage, an assemblage is never a stolid block but an open-ended collective, a \u201cnon-totalizable sum.\u201d (24) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cole, Arda L., and Knowles, J. Gary. 2007. Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research. Sage Publishing.<\/strong> https:\/\/us.sagepub.com\/en-us\/nam\/handbook-of-the-arts-in-qualitative-research\/book226626<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thea Patterson<\/strong>, choreographer, performer, dramaturge, and researcher<\/em>
https:\/\/theapatterson.wordpress.com\/<\/a>
Migueltzinta\u00a0Solis<\/strong>, mestizXXX interdisciplinary artist;<\/em> PhD student in Cultural, Social and Political Thought<\/em>
https:\/\/migueltzinta.com\/<\/a>
Tyler Stewart<\/strong>, curator, writer, and MA candidate in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought<\/em>
https:\/\/teestewww.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
References and reading <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n