Through a video essay—“Getting There: Methods of Mess, Mobility, and Multimodality”—I reflect on my own at-times transgressive fieldwork of the public rhetorics of graffiti: the actual getting to the artifacts, the relationships my own body has with the surfaces that other bodies have engaged, moved across, and inscribed. This video, then, is itself a critical analysis that considers how rhetorical invention and heuristic explore how we might make meaning in and of space and how understanding that how we move through space can affect how and what we research. I set out with this question in mind: What are the critical and ideological intersections among the ways we move along and engage stranged, Othered surfaces that bring forth the opportunity to give us voice?
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Related Resource
Getting There (video) is a draft of the video that Scott talked about during the workshop.
Presenter
Scott Lunsford is Professor of Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication at James Madison University. His current research focuses on the rhetorics of graffiti and other counter-publics in transgressive spaces. He produces this work as video and audio scholarship focused through the lenses of embodied literacies and rhetorics, multimodality, mobility studies, and genre theory.
