Connecting: Methods of Making, Unmaking, and Remaking for Speculative Futures

Olczak, Susie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9615-5514 and Dormor, Catherine (2026) Connecting: Methods of Making, Unmaking, and Remaking for Speculative Futures. In: The Experiential in Artistic Research Proceedings of the Nordic Summer University Symposia, 2022–2025. Nordic Summer University, pp. 65-77.

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Abstract

To connect is to bring together, whether permanently, provisionally or temporarily and as such, offers scope for thinking through making, unmaking and remaking as speculative approaches to humans and more than human affects in this age of the Anthropocene. In this sense it looks back from the rupture that requires repair and to consider how it has been violently formed . Thus its true repair cannot, and should not, be achieved without holding in tension the anxiety of a re-rupture. This is to say that covering over the wound, invisibly mending, does not reckon with the pasts and presents that produced it. Here, Olczak and Dormor consider methodologies of truth-telling, narratives and narration through a series of material practices, which they consider here in terms of stitching, raft-making, shelf-storing and mending. These are, necessarily, set within a context of violence, offering a tensional dynamic of anxiety that is a productive, vulnerable and affective way of being. Both artists speak of the physical, bodily incursions that are historical and present power struggles and violences. They carry pain and labour as they materialise and corporealise what it means to reckon with, colonial pasts and presents and what might emerge from collective and speculative spaces of practice.

Item Type:	Book Section
Article Type:	Article
Related URLs:	https://www.nsuweb.org/
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Arts, Culture and Environment
Depositing User:	Susie Olczak
Date Deposited:	06 May 2026 11:21
Last Modified:	06 May 2026 11:30
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/15967

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