wholewide.world — CARLA LIESCHING

wholewide.world examines ways in which colonial & patriarchal ideas around ‘research,’ ‘exploration’ & ‘adventure’ are visualized, romanticized & glamorized in popular culture. The site maps associative visual & textual experiments into fluctuating arrangements.

This project was first conceived in response to an invitation from volteface.online, a contributor-led forum dedicated to research methodologies of transdisciplinary practice from varied knowledge sets and locales—founded and edited by Johannesburg-based researchers, Robyn Nesbitt and Sara-Aimee Verity.

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Voltface.online Issue 1 — Based on the notion of the ouroboros; the lemniscate form of research-forming-research on an endless feedback loop, able to generate offshoots and wanderings. As the term volte-face suggests, to alter opinion, turning not necessarily away from something but rather toward what can be imagined, highlights the reflexivity and ever-shifting ideas of what a contributor-led curriculum can envision.