Creating, knowing, and caring - with Merel Visse

About this episode

This episode explores the connections between art, care, and intellectual inquiry with guest Merel Visse.

How are the practice of art and the practice of care connected? In what ways might intellectual inquiry be a caring practice? And what part do wonder, poetry and 'unknowing' play in research - and in care? These are some of the questions we explore in this episode, with Merel Visse . Merel is a scholar, artist, editor and educator. She holds a faculty position in the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University in New Jersey in the United States, where she chairs a master’s and doctoral degree program. Merel is also affiliated with the University of Humanistic Studies in the Netherlands, Care Ethics Chair . She serves on several editorial boards in the U.S.A. and was an artist in residence at the New York School of Visual Arts, and in 2018 at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn. In the Netherlands, Merel co-founded the Meaningful Artistic Research Program , a collaboration between the University of Humanistic Studies and HKU University of the Arts, and with Elena Cologni at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK, she co-leads the Art and Care Platform Series. Merel is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on art, care ethics, and research methodology. She’s…

People in this episode

Host: Martin Robb

Guest: Merel Visse

Topics covered

• art
• care
• intellectual inquiry
• research methodology
• ethics
• poetry

Keywords

• art
• care ethics
• research
• intellectual inquiry
• poetry
• unknowing
• education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University, University of Humanistic Studies, NARS Foundation, HKU University of the Arts, Anglia Ruskin University, International Journal of Education and the Arts, Visual Arts Research

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