This article offers an analysis of a period of autoethnographic fieldwork conducted at Venture Arts, an art studio in Manchester (UK) that provides infrastructure to support people with intellectual disabilities to participate in the visual arts. The analysis is concerned with two ‘discomfort zones’ that have become apparent in the research period. The first is my positionality as a researcher in the studio space. In this section I draw on new materialism and critical disability studies to propose my methodology, mode of analysis and strategies of writing. In writing towards an understanding of my positionality and associated affective flows, the second discomfort zone provides an exposition of my emerging methodology. In this section I analyse my fieldnotes to explore the tensions and alliances between different zones of practice in the Venture Arts studio, and their relationship with existing conceptions of contemporary art and relational art. While each of these lenses offers tools through which to understand the artistic practice that arises out of the studio, none of them does completely. Instead, I propose an alternative account that recognises the overlapping, converging and co‐constituted zones of practice in the Venture Arts studio.

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并肩成为研究者：工作室中的艺术实践，问责制和融合

本文分析了在曼彻斯特（英国）的一家艺术工作室Venture Arts进行的一段人种志田野调查，该研究提供了支持智障人士参加视觉艺术的基础设施。该分析涉及两个“不适区域”，这些“不适区域”在研究期间已变得显而易见。首先是我作为工作室工作人员的地位。在本节中，我将利用新的唯物主义和严重残疾研究来提出我的方法论，分析模式和写作策略。在撰写理解我的位置和相关情感流的文章时，第二个不适区域提供了我新兴方法的说明。在本节中，我将分析我的田野笔记，以探索风险艺术工作室不同实践领域之间的紧张关系和同盟关系，以及它们与当代艺术和关系艺术的现有观念之间的关系。尽管这些镜头中的每一个都提供工具来理解工作室中出现的艺术实践，但它们都无法完全发挥作用。取而代之的是，我提出了一个替代账户，该账户可以识别风险艺术工作室中重叠，融合和共同构成的实践领域。