Introduction

Natalie Loveless is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the University of Alberta, situated in Treaty Six Territory, where she directs the U of A Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory and co-leads the Faculty of Arts’ Signature Area in Research-Creation (SPAR²C). Her recent books How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation and Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation examine debates surrounding research-creation and its institutionalization, paying particular attention to what it means—and why it matters—to make and teach art research-creationally in the North American university today. Forthcoming books include Responding to Site: The Performance Work of Marilyn Arsem and The Routledge Companion to Performance Art. During the 2018-19 academic year, Loveless was in residence as a visiting scholar in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) at Concordia University in Montreal, working on a new book and curatorial project, Sensing the Anthropocene: Aesthetic Attunement in an age of Urgency and a new collaborative interdisciplinary curatorial project, Speculative Energy Futures, as part of the Just Powers initiative funded by the Future Energy Systems Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF).