There are many definitions of the word interdisciplinary.
Interdisciplinarity has broad
applications and purposes, and is use in many field including sciences,
engineering, everyday collaborations, literature and the art.
My practice is
interdisciplinary. It sits at the intersection of arts and sciences. And within
sciences my research draws from the Anthropocene: a geologic time period
where humans have disrupted - but do not control - Earth’s systems.
Some definitions of
interdisciplinarity are playful. The philologist Roberta Frank (b.1941), in
Robert Moran's book INTERDISCIPLINARITY is quoted as
saying that,
Interdisciplinary has something to please
everyone. Its base, discipline, is hoary and antiseptic; its prefix, inter, is
hairy and friendly. Unlike fields, with their mud, cows, and corn, the Latinate
discipline comes encased in stainless steel: it suggests something rigorous,
aggressive, hazardous to master; Inter hints that knowledge is a warm, mutually
developing, consultative thing. (Frank
1988: 100)
Speculative Strategies in
Interdisciplinary Arts Practice (2014) edited by Jane Calow, Daniel Hinchcliffe and Laura
Mansfield offers plethora of interdisciplinary stories ranging from the
pleasure and fears inherent to interdisciplinary practices, mutuality, ethics
and the politics of negotiations - all useful for my practice.
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