NITHYA IYER

An Indefinite Series of Discontinuous Acts

An interdisciplinary research project conducted at the Hangar Centre for Artistic Investigation, Lisbon, with the supervision and curatorial support of Cristiana Tejo, made in collaboration with Jad Khairallah and Zohar Iancu (PhD, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa).

An Indefinite Series of Discontinuous Acts explored how arts-based research methods can deepen academic inquiry, with a specific focus on emergent themes in culture studies. Engaging the MIECAT Form of Inquiry – a phenomenological research method developed by the Melbourne Institute of Experiential and Creative Art Therapy (MIECAT) – in relation to the theses of PhD students at the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa (Zohar Iancu and Jad Khairallah), the project aimed to uncover and present the potentialities of arts-based approaches to academic practice in creating and disseminating inclusive and multi- sensorial forms of knowledge.

Traversing themes of ambiguity as practice, inside/outside, thresholds and liminality, and the shifting markers of contemporary cultural citizenship, this exhibition features audio-visual installations, visual and text-based works that represent key outcomes from the research.

This project was supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Australia.