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| Given name | Eoin |
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| Surname | O Cuinneagain |
| eoinocuinneagain@gmail.com | |
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| Title | On Oideas as Artistic Research: Songing as Decolonial Method |
| Format | Project presentation |
| Main language | English |
| Abstract | This project frames amhránaíocht as a site of epistemic resistance, confronting colonial hierarchies of knowledge and reclaiming conceptual sovereignty. It advances oideas (healing-based education) as an artistic research methodology emerging from the endangered conceptual world of Gaelic oral epistemology. Grounded in the practice of amhránaíocht (unaccompanied Irish-language song), it argues that songing is not merely cultural expression but a living research paradigm through which knowledge is generated, tested, and transmitted. Drawing on vernacular concepts including dúchas (relational indigeneity), seanchas (epistemic inheritance), dinnseanchas (land-knowledge), aisling (sound-vision), and casadh (turning/encounter), the project demonstrates how Gaelic song traditions enact a circular, session-based methodology in which ontology, epistemology, and axiology are inseparable. Within the ceremonial space of the session, research unfolds through embodied listening, repetition, variation, debate, and collective attunement. Knowledge is produced relationally—between singer and listener, ancestors and descendants, land and voice. Situating this paradigm in dialogue with Indigenous and decolonial methodologies, the project challenges Anglo-modern separations between method and meaning, archive and performance, research and ceremony. It critiques the folklorization and epistemic exteriorization of Gaelic knowledge under Anglo-modernity/coloniality while proposing oideas as a transferable methodological orientation attentive to healing, accountability, and communal continuity. By foregrounding Irish-language conceptual tools as methodological resources rather than objects of study, the project makes audible the epistemic violences concealed within Anglo-modern knowledge systems. Re-centering oideas as a healing-based research orientation, it contributes to broader debates on epistemic sovereignty and the role of artistic research. |
| Link to the Exposition | https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4226048/4226049 |
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| Previous presentations or iterations of the research | This project emerged from my PhD research on Gaelic oral epistemology and decolonial methodology, "Songing Dúchas: Amhránaíocht as Decolonial, Epistemic Disobedience". In my current postdoctoral fellowship at the University of South Africa (UNISA), it has developed an expanded international comparative dimension, placing amhránaíocht and oideas in dialogue with African and other Indigenous research traditions. Note: RC exposition pending account upgrade – link to follow within 24 hours. |
| Additional information | This presentation combines short live song excerpts with analytical reflection. The structure moves between practice and conceptual framing, demonstrating how oideas operates within amhránaíocht as a session-based research paradigm. Rather than presenting theory about song, the presentation enacts songing as method, allowing participants to encounter its relational and epistemic dimensions directly before situating them within a decolonial and artistic research framework. |
| Spatial and technical requirements | Standard lecture room setup with projector and screen. Audio playback capability for short sound excerpts (via laptop connection). If possible, a microphone for brief live vocal demonstration. No additional technical or spatial requirements. |
| Potential risks or ethical concerns | No ethical concerns identified at this stage. |
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