ABSTRACT
Collage-making has been shown to be a great method for exploring and expressing multi-faceted, layered, complex topics individually and collaboratively, especially in contexts of crisis. Like other art-based research (ABR), collage-making allows individuals to engage emotionally and politically sensitive issues via non-verbal means. We are currently living through a global event that is shaking up how we interact and experience the world, changing our lived experiences at their core. In such a time of crisis, collage emerges as a form of ABR that would be ideal for tackling emotional and even traumatic experiences of living through a global pandemic. How can we engage collage-making in a time that clearly needs this method for exploring and dealing with issues. Yet also in a time that limits this method in many ways? In midst of social isolation, we are unable to work face-to-face with others, and thus to tap into communal, embodied, and interactive forms of knowledge creation through collaborative collage. This chapter then explores new avenues for collage-making as a method when working in contexts of crisis sets constraints and limitations on interaction and collaboration.
