Long-Distance Research Methods: Painting Across

This research method was developed by Maruška Svašek during the pandemic, and was used to conduct online interviews with migrants women based in (Northern) Ireland. As a distinct epistemology, the method produced an alternative mode of ‘hanging out’ and comprised an embodied mode of interlinked on- and off-line experience and knowing-through-making that revealed specific aspects of pandemic life.

Mia seated, 2021. Watercolour and pen. Painting and photograph by Maruška Svašek, 2021.

Hanging Out in Zoom, 2021. Watercolour and pen. Painting and photograph by Maruška Svašek, 2021.

 

For further analysis of the method, see:

Svašek, Maruška 2023 Ethnography as creative improvisation: Exploring methods in (post) pandemic times. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 13(1).