Chapter 1 Critical Openings in Performing Transdisciplinary Research as/in Rebellion
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Abstract
Transdisciplinary research and writing performs differently. Transdisciplinary research emphasises matter, materiality and mattering (‘making-with’). Transdisciplinary research resists being forced into one dimension or generic type. Rather, it reconfigures disciplinary learning in ways that transgress disciplinary boundaries and offers a productive space to research and write within transdisciplinarity at the intersections of scientific and artistic ways of knowing and being with(in) the world. This chapter introduces the chapters featured in Part 3, where these transdisciplinary intersections are performed by scholars who are enthused to invite readers to travel together and emphasise matter, materiality and mattering or ‘making-with’ forms of arts and science interaction including reconfigurations of music, science, language, Indigenous and western timescapes, dance, circus arts and spoken word. Pushing against the known and flouting traditions is at the heart of the doing of rebellious transdisciplinarity, which appears at the frontiers of our knowledge. Through pushing against the known and flouting traditions we act out and reveal innovative, affective and sensual encounters and create new and more conscious transdisciplinary performances.