Art-Based Research in the Context of a Global Pandemic

Usva Seregina is a visual artist and a researcher of consumer culture. Their work focuses on exploring topics of consumerism, consumer agency, and gender performance, as well as developing art-based research methods. Astrid Van den Bossche is a Lecturer at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London. Her work takes literary, historical, and computational approaches to understanding promotional cultures.

Introduction

Usva Seregina and Astrid Van den Bossche

PART 1: CONNECTION

1. Wandering with Wonder: From Social Practices to Artistic Practices and Back

Luciana Walther and Carlos Eduardo Félix da Costa

2. Drawing the Group: A Visual Exploration of a Therapeutic Space Online

Helen Omand

3. Collaging Covid Holidays: Using Collage as a Communal Method for Reflection and Research

Usva Seregina and Aurélie Broeckerhoff

4. Performing Forgiveness in the Age of Covid-19: Creating a Hybrid Space for Dialogue and Peacebuilding

Rana Aytug, Tom Gorman, Elly Harrowell and Victoria Thoms

PART 2: CHANGE

5. Living Aesthetics in a (Post)Pandemic World
Laurie A. Meamber

6. Encounters of Nothingness: Dilemmas of the Uncanny Self

Stephen O’Sullivan

7. Hollowed Out: Creative Coding and the Pandemic Urban Imaginary

Astrid Van den Bossche

8. "Can You Hear Me Now?" Listening and Living in Disruptive (Post)Pandemic Soundworlds

Matthias Bode

PART 3: CONFRONTATION

9. Poetic Reflection (PR): Voices in Pandemic Period
Hilary Downey

10. Faces of Self-Isolation

Usva Seregina

11. Everyone’s a Photographer: Reflections on Photography as Creative Expression through Lockdown

Ekant Veer

12. "Public School Teachers, You All Completely Disgust Me!": How My Fake Trump Fought the Revolt of the Elites in Pandemic-Era Ann Arbor

Rebekah Modrak

Afterword

Astrid Van den Bossche and Usva Seregina