“There is a causal relationship between potential and actual, although not a simple, singular one. It is a situational causal ecology, one in which an ethical value of care, concern, or responsibility (for repairing colonial harm or for environmental stewardship, for instance) might participate. They are potent sites of re-worlding; works of art make it possible to view the world differently, to recreate it.”
— Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning and Mary Bunch, “ Decolonial Re-worlding: Potential Ecologies of the Virtual,” In Press.
Mary Bunch & Dolleen Tisawi’ashii Manning
RESEARCH CREATION AND CRITICAL THEORY FROM
DECOLONIAL, FEMINIST, CRIP AND QUEER Peripheries
The Co-Lab creates critical scholarship and art that thinks-with and across image, story, and concept at junctures where the real and the virtual intersect. We employ a decolonial research-creation (RC) methodology that takes as its starting place the border where queer settler and Indigenous realities and worldviews collide. With installation,virtual reality, augmented reality, performance, video and projection work that engages decolonial, feminist, crip, queer and Anishinaabe imaginaries, our approach is fundamentally ontological. Our goal is to contribute to imaginaries for transitions beyond colonial modernity, which requires thinking social and political forms and relations according to different presumptions about reality.