Abstract Let the text speak for the Methods is a performative paper presentation emerging from an ongoing artistic research project at Stockholm University of the Arts. Grounded in embodied knowledge and diasporic epistemologies that honour ancestors, the presentation explores method as something inherited, relational, and continuously in the making.
Through first-person narration and performative reading, the paper moves across geographies between Stockholm, Mayotte, Paris and New York; and across time, where past, present, and future co-exist within the body. Unfolding through thematic constellations such as Methods, Geographies, Black/Human, Time, and In-visible Love, the presentation resists linear knowledge production and foregrounds embodiment, care, and fugitivity as methodological forces.
Blending poetic writing with artistic research, this contribution invites the audience to listen differently — to methods that are felt before they are named, and to knowledge carried, transmitted, and transformed through bodies.