Description
This paper takes up Ursula Biemann’s question of what art is and what artistic action may be for, exploring how art may not only reveal damaged systems in need of repair, but also participate in meaningful and necessary acts of reparation. Drawing on diverse forms of ecological art, creative practice, and collaborative research centered on multi-species encounters, I consider how a reparative intention might be expressed methodologically within social research. I map out modes of everyday attunement, along with ways of knowing, being, and co-creating that affirm interdependence over disconnection. Through this inquiry, I seek imaginative and practical approaches that collapse or otherwise negotiate the distance between representation and life. I reflect, from ethical and political perspectives, on how to hold and mediate across diverse knowledge forms, aspiring towards more plural sensitivities to selfhood, otherness, and our embeddedness in the more-than-human world.
