Communicating academic knowledge beyond the written academic text: an autoethnographic analysis of the Mirror Palace of Democracy installation experiment
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v14i2p75-99Keywords:
Academic communication, Multimodal scholarship, Arts-based research, Democracy, Installation artAbstract
The article first discusses five approaches that aim to transcend, complement, or overturn the hegemony of the written academic text. In the second part, the Mirror Palace of Democracy installation experiment, which had the explicit objective of moving beyond the written academic text while still remaining in the realm of academic knowledge communication, is autoethnographically analyzed. The experiment allowed reflection on the integrated and iterative nature of academic communication, on the hybrid academic – artistic identity, and on the diversification of publics. Both the theoretical discussion and the Mirror Palace of Democracy installation are part of a call for more experimentation with, and theorization of, multimodal and/or arts-based academic communication.
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