What stories does an object hold? What could it tell? What secrets does it keep? How can these stories be unfolded speculatively?
The Implosion Method Research Group invites artists, writers, and researchers (three of whom will be MFA students) to exchange ideas and develop experimental practices in dealing with a concrete material research object (an everyday object, a material like snow, a device or machine, a plant, a site i.e. a factory, etc.). The Implosion Method, formulated by Joseph Dummit in reference to Donna Haraway, proposes to interrogate an object in terms of its multifaceted historical, sociopolitical, technological, physical, material, and symbolic contexts—and thus unfolding its polyphony: How does the object exist in the world? How does the world exist within the object? Taking playful forms of the Implosion Method as a starting point, we want to use these objects to experiment not only with different narratives, but also with artistic possibilities of presentation and visualization.