A/r/tography as Living Inquiry Through Art and Text

Abstract

There is a substantial body of literature on arts-based forms of research demonstrating scholars’ endeavors to theorize the production of the arts as a mode of scholarly inquiry and as a method of representation. However, if arts-based research is to be taken seriously as an emerging field of educational research, then perhaps it needs to be understood as a methodology in its own right. This entails moving beyond the use of existing criteria that exists for qualitative research and toward an understanding of interdisciplinarity not as a patchwork of different disciplines and methodologies but as a loss, a shift, or a rupture where in absence, new courses of action un/fold. This article proposes an understanding of arts-based research as enacted, living inquiry through six renderings of a/r/tography: contiguity, living inquiry, openings, metaphor/metonymy, reverberations, and excess.

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Stephanie Springgay, Rita L. Irwin, Sylvia Wilson Kind (2005). A/r/tography as Living Inquiry Through Art and Text. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800405280696

@article{stephanie2005artography,
  title  = {A/r/tography as Living Inquiry Through Art and Text},
  author = {Springgay, Stephanie and Irwin, Rita L. and Kind, Sylvia Wilson},
  year   = {2005},
  journal = {Qualitative Inquiry},
  doi    = {10.1177/1077800405280696}
}

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