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Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (First Compilation)
Artist Meghan Moe Beitiks begins her research with personal interviews. She discusses processes of recovery with people with both personal and professional experiences of trauma and recovery, including an ecological restoration specialist, an animal behaviourist, several survivors of abusive relationships, and many others. Clips from the interviews become the basis for visual and material explorations, generating videos, installations, and images. Stigma and prejudice emerge as barriers to healing – acceptance, observation, and listening, as common tools to accelerate it.
This compilation takes components of Beitiks’s research and arranges them within their own system of exploration. Observers’ perceptions of the work are both assisted and disrupted by audio descriptions. Originally intended to make the works accessible to non-sighted audiences, the descriptions also serve as an exploration of observation and objectivity. A seemingly unrelated pine wallpaper appears to have been unfairly categorised as “masculine,” prompting further questions about categorisation and labelling, as well as depictions of nature. Beitiks’s presence and movement in the work is described as androgynous, their body taking on the narratives described in the interview clips. Boundaries between various disciplines and narratives disappear—we instead experience the labour of connecting disparate entities, despite the limits of our own perceptions.
Affiliation: Independent
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ecology interviews meghan moe beitiks networks pain performance recovery resilience sustainability systems trauma video applied fine performing arts issue 14 jar - journal for artistic research
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Applied Fine Performing Arts - JAR - Journal for Artistic Research - Issue 14 Applied Fine Performing Arts - JAR - Journal for Artistic Research Applied Fine Performing Arts catalog - mediathek catalog - network catalog - Artists catalog - HGK catalog - HGKplus
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- AccessDate
- 2021-04-15T12:56:38Z
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.286506
- DateAdded
- 2021-04-22T13:14:01Z
- DateModified
- 2021-08-10T11:54:59Z
- Issue
- 14
- Key
- JTA5REBL
- Language
- en
- LibraryCatalog
- www.researchcatalogue.net
- PublicationTitle
- Journal for Artistic Research
- Rights
- Open Closed