The exposition â(Not so) Casual Conversations: Experiments in Attunement as Method in Investigative Art Practiceâ considers how investigative poetic practices could broaden notions of âforensisâ in terms of contemporary art. By developing my concept of âpoetic forensicsâ with attunement as a method that is âpalpable and sensory, yet imaginary and uncontainedâ (Stewart 2011) it admits the nonhumanâtrees, rocks, streams, animalsâsuggesting new relations beyond the human as possible witnesses (Williams 2018). This presents an invitation to think differently about articulations of public truth. The question âWho else is witness?' emerges while exploring material intrinsically elusive to testimony on what and who has been disappeared by oppressive geopolitics. Human-rights issues are implicit given the projectâs focus on historical erasure and state violence at âthe threshold of detectabilityâ (Weizman 2017). It also attends to my familyâs experiences as we faced the âpolitical disappearanceâ of my father IvĂĄn Daza, in 1960s Cold War-era Venezuela. The project grapples with validity through methods and lively approaches that decolonize both knowledge (Tuhiwai Smith 1999) and nature (Demos 2016) presenting posthuman challenges to a privileged human onto-epistemological position (Viveiros de Castro 2015).
(NOT SO) CASUAL CONVERSATIONS
Biography
Livia Daza-Paris is a Venezuelan-Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in Montreal who works with performance, moving image, text and documentary evidence. She works with attunement methods, poetic interventions and decolonizing methodologies within art-based research to address undisclosed events of 1960s Cold War-era Venezuela official history. She has graduate diplomas from Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) in Community Economic Development and in Digital Technologies in Design Arts. She holds an MFA in Creative Practice from Transart Institute. Currently, Daza-Paris is a PhD candidate in Art & Media at the University of Plymouth, UK.
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