This article examines two approaches of shared art practice developed through the authors’ respective practice-led research (PLR) exploring landscape painting and photographic portraiture. Each approach utilizes a different combination of studio materials, processes and theoretical frameworks – from dialogics to intersectional feminism – to facilitate cross-cultural exchange through participatory or collaborative methods. Where these approaches align, however, is their use of theory pertaining to creative research and culture: notably, Homi K. Bhabha’s notion of ‘third space’. The authors also share a remit for reflexive studio practice to rigorously and ethically acknowledge their position in the PLR. These two approaches are outlined and compared so they may be adopted or adapted by those also exploring intersections between creative practice and cultural exchange in other contexts.
See et al. (Tue,) studied this question.