ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the art collective Cesar & Lois delves into the nuts and bolts of the process of making our experimental artworks. This process is rooted in non-discipline-focused research, collaboration, and an interrogatory approach. We take the reader on a journey through our practice-based research, which entails a post-anthropocentric perspective and multispecies dialogues, as well as networked thinking 1 and collaboration as propulsion for our work as researcher-artists. Along the way, we hope to engage creative practitioners from different areas to reflect on multidisciplinary practice as knowledge production that goes beyond specific fields and becomes a place for experimentation where questions are identified, hypotheses are tested and ideas materialise as prototypes. This chapter introduces the reader to the specifics of our work and excavates some of the sources of our methods. It is not intended as a step-by-step guide for every practitioner, but rather a set of considerations within an interdisciplinary and collaborative art practice and as an example of reflective creativity.
