My latest writing about the practice research project, Urban Wild_Life, has just been published on the Research Catalogue. It represents some of my most recent thinking about interactions with wild nature in the city and methodologies of conducting practice research in sustained, longitudinal relationships with more than humans. It also enacts a multi-species approach to research, which advocates cultivating “arts of attentiveness” in relation to the more than human world, ‘paying attention to others and crafting meaningful response’ (Van Dooren et al. 2016, p.1).
In my case, the ‘meaningful response’ was enacted through creative digital practices and resulted in two outputs – a fixed media work and an audio-visual performance. In both cases, sound and image-making functioned as ways of exploring the affective dimensions of the initial encounters with wild nature in urban places, unearthing the meanings and feelings embedded in them through live mixing practices.
Jo Scott: artist-researcher 