Anya Yermakova: ArtScience for Historiographic Methods

science-making. 
A presentation will be followed by a discussion. All are welcome. 

This presentation will showcase several creative projects in sound, movement and experimental laboratories, that have been instrumental in developing a mediated critical lens on critical issues of scholarship in the history and philosophy of science-making. 

Re-discovering foundational spaces that interlink methods and modalities, we play in re-combining them via dynamic, at times non-existent logics. Foregoing bridge-building across disciplines and ways-of-being, we instead focus on the kinds of selves that inhabit them, including ourselves - as sites for research. We treat Foundational Principles as conditions for possibility -- of playfulness, of "progress," of corporeality.

In conversation with astronomer Sebastian Perez, we will present the theory and practice of integrating foundational laws of astrophysics with embodied knowledge, as well as taking that re-integration of foundational principles into co-composing and improvising with sounds and structures. Diagrammatic notation, historically-embedded assumptions of genre, fluidity of language, and relaxing the categories of "science" -- surface and bend, necessarily, as we dimension relevance. 

This work supports the translation and amplification of the the precarious voices of the subversive mathematicians in pre-revolutionary Russian Empire. "Refusing to refuse" professionalization, they are at once "serious" and dispersed, "intuitive" in both a mathematically-praiseworthy and suspiciously-mystical ways.  While #neo-Platonist, #universalist, #spiritual are all accurate associations for their mathematical practices, differentiating their universalism is a task that requires an ontology based on rethinking their fundamentals in their kind of modernity, which has left little trace. 

Situating their work in the circles of poetry-writing, gnoseology and non-binary logic working groups, as well as in circles of Methodologists and Symbolists -- broadens the scope of mathematical subjectivity. Recognizing the mathematical practices in service of "tuning" and "tuning in" embed their work in a framework of collective responsibility. 
Experimenting with creative practice on ourselves that upholds the fundamental indeterminacy of this collective exposes missing pieces of a mathematical sanctuary enwrapped in multi-dimensional precarity, removed from our intuition by a gap in spacetime. 

Anya Yermakova is a PhD candidate in History of Science at Harvard, with a Secondary in Critical Media Practice. 
For short bio see anyayermakova.com