Hyphenated: A Collaborative Meditation on Research-Creation

Anna Foran; Ami Xherro

doi:10.17742/IMAGE29718

Authors

Anna Foran University of Toronto
Ami Xherro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29718

Abstract

This article draws on a dialogic form to probe the hyphen at the heart of research-creation, a burgeoning episteme. We, both authors, contend that this hyphen is bound up with solidarity, in the sense of forging communal spirit in the often-depersonalized realm of the academy. We also contend that it’s bound up with intimacy, in the sense of forging proximity between different media and disciplines and between the people practicing them, who are both separate and yet not so apart. In the end, we transcribe an impromptu dance party that took place in a seminar room in the winter of 2024, offering this up as a vision for the models of intimacy (you and me) and space-sharing (us) that research-creation might fruitfully imply.

Author Biographies

Anna Foran, University of Toronto

Anna Foran is a writer and PhD candidate at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, working in the option for research-creation.

Ami Xherro

Ami Xherro is a poet and translator. Her work draws out the incomprehensible from the ordinary, playing with technes of association. She is the author of the poetry collection Drank, Recruited (Guernica Editions, 2023), and her second book BED YEAR is forthcoming with Pamenar Press. She is a co-founder of the Toronto Experimental Translation Collective who attempt to push the practices of translation beyond the tongue and further into the body, and a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, where she studies women's poetic life-writing.

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