A Place to Meet

Living with Critical Theory as a Mode of Care in Everyday Artistic Practice

Authors

• Myriam D. Diatta Monash University
• Stacy Holman Jones Monash University
• Kate McEntee Monash University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.119529

Keywords:

critical artistic research, the everyday, practice, critical theory, care

Abstract

This essay is a place where the everyday meets critical artistic practice meets theory. Within a critical artistic researcher’s everyday practice, critical theory is lived and practiced in modes that are material and felt. Building on the of critical theorists who write explicitly about their relationships with theory, three researchers write vignettes detailing small moments in their practice. The vignettes make visible the ways the everyday and critical theory interlock and show how critical artistic research asks us to consider ways of caring, being accountable, attending to, and growing sensibilities for living with critical theories.