Inaugural event in the informal research group Methods at Work. Through multidisciplinary readings, discussions, and shorter presentations the group seeks to flesh out what humanistic research practices and processes are today. Researchers at any employment level and with any academic background within the humanities are warmly invited.

This meeting revolves around autoethnography and includes two shorter presentations by Myriam Diatta and Anne Green Munk, who both carry out practice-based and to some extent autoethnographic research. The presentations are followed by discussion and a glass of wine.

Suggested readings relevant to the presentations are shared in advance upon sign up to Maj Ørskov (mbo@cc.au.dk).

Myriam D. Diatta, PhD, is a critical creative researcher and independent scholar. Myriam will address questions on how the ineffable epistemic aspects of critical and contemporary artistic practice might be made visible by thinking and making with artists? What approaches to authorship and knowledge-production might be introduced to art theory by critical practitioner-researchers? The approach to explore these questions consists of a series of hands-on artistic methods informed by cultural studies, Black studies, performance studies, queer theory, and critical autoethnography. 

Anne Green Munk, PhD, is a post.doc. in “Authoring Slavery”. In this presentation, Anne will reflect on the relationship between theory and praxis in the work of the photographer and life writer Sally Mann, especially the photobook Immediate Family and the memoir Hold Still. Anne will also present her own photography and how it relates to her current research and writing.

Organized by the research programme Contemporary Aesthetics and Technology, the research centre CRAPCC and the research unit IPA.