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This essay presents a research methodology which is anchored in feminist anthropology. It introduces a series of ethnographic practices which resulted from an approach to Ana Gallardo’s (Rosario, 1948) artistic practice as fieldwork. Based on a series of conversations with the artist, which shaped the concept of expanded listening, I propose an analysis of how ethnography plays in artistic research. To do so, I resort to the following concepts: epistemic decoloniality (in relation to the conditions and mechanisms of artistic production); storytelling as a resource for ethnographic narrative; ethnographic methodology, and feminist ethnography. Finally, I reflect on the writing that weaves the ethnographic notes with the artist’s testimonies. From this conceptual framework, along with a collaborative methodology carried out during the inquiry process, I pose this question: How can ethnographic methodologies be used as an approach to an “entangled” artistic practice? In order to answer this question, I develop the concept of the tangle as a metaphor of the origins of Gallardo’s creative process.
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