ECS 711
Research-Creation Field School
Fall 2026
Topics
- Research creation
- Embodied learning
- Aesthetic pedagogy
- Affect
- Fieldwork
Readings
- Feltness
- The Breaks
- Davis, H. (2017). Desire and Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada. Chapter 8. This book is available as an e-book through McMaster Library.
- Hamilton, S. D. (2022). Uncoupling the Archives: Fragments from a Memory Journal. RACAR, 47 (2). HYPERLINK "https://www.racar-racar.com/uploads/5/7/7/4/57749791/racar_47_2_pp_hamilton.pdf"https://www.racar-racar.com/uploads/5/7/7/4/57749791/racar_47_2_pp_hamilton.pdf
- Loveless, N. (2019). How to make art at the end of the world. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Introduction & Chapter 1. This e-book can be accessed online through McMaster Libraries.
- Chapman, O. & Sawchuck, K. (2012). Research-creation: Intervention, analysis, and “family resemblances,” Canadian Journal of Communication, 37, 5-26.
- Shannon, D. B., & Truman, S. E. (2020). Problematizing Sound Methods Through Music Research-Creation: Oblique Curiosities. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19.
- Robinson, D. (2020). Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Introduction, Chapter 1 and the score on page 75-76.
- Ariss, A. (2025). Journeys, Merged Objects, and Public Art: Situating Practices of Salish Weaving as Research-Creation. RACAR: Revue d’art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review, vol. 48, no. 2, 35–56. JSTOR,
- Willard, T. (2018). 6 strong breeze. In C. Shaw & E. Turpin (Eds.), The work of wind: Land (pp. 189-206). Verlag. (On A2L)
- Confente, O. (2025). Research-Creation and More-Than-Human Collaboration. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 15(3), 243–261.
- Hupfield, M. (2023). Breaking Protocol. NY: Vera List Centre for Art and Politics.
- Truman, S. E., Shannon, D. B., and Yusoff, K. (2023) Cosmic Beavers: Queer counter-mythologies through speculative songwriting. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 28(6) 8496.
- Loveless, N. (2019) (Ed.) Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press.
- Manning, E. (2016). The Minor Gesture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Manning, E., & Massumi, B. (2014). Thought in the act: Passages in the ecology of experience. Read pages 83-134. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
- Springgay, S. & Truman, S. E. (2018). Walking Methodologies in a More-than-Human World: WalkingLab. London, UK: Routledge.
- Truman, S. E. (2022). Feminist Speculations and the Practice of Research-Creation: Writing Pedagogies and Intertextual Affects. London, UK: Routledge.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Fall 2026