Experiments in Art Research is an edited collection that responds to the question: how do we live inquiry through art?
Experiments in Art Research: How Do We Live Questions Through Art? is not a conventional research methods guide; it's an encounter for asking questions through art.
Originating from the work of a community of tightly connected scholars, artists, and teachers, the book unfolds through a tapestry of moments, practices, and people, embracing the celebration of works in progress and in community. Rooted in the practice of permission-giving, the narrative intertwines personal storieslaying bare the transformative power of unconventional teaching methods, risky endeavors, and the breaking of scholarly normsand begins by understanding that art and research are not separate. After that, there are endless directions to take up. Instead of a handbook offering rules or best practices, this text offers an inspiring collection of joy, longing, and determination.
This is fascinating reading for arts-based researchers, artists, educators in the arts, education scholars, research-creators, performance theorists, art history scholars, art education scholars, inter- and anti-disciplinary scholars, qualitative and post-qualitative researchers, decolonization scholars, public humanities scholars, and writing pedagogy scholars.
Preface Prefacing an Invitation; Inviting a Preface Questions Through
Art, Together: An Introduction; Part 1: Un/Disciplined: Experiments in
Disciplinarity
1. An Invitation to Compost: Writing Forms for What I Cant Write
2.
Witnessing Through Our Voices
3. Exploring a Pedagogy of Longing
4. How is
Learning a Collage, or Why am I Searching for a More Specific Way of Talking
about Collaboration?
5. Syllabus Reading List as Artistic Material
6. What
Happens when you are No Longer the Teacher?
7. A Call for Social Engagement:
The Arts Proposal as Creative Research
8. Reflecting Community through
Collaborative Public Art Projects Part 2: I/Us: Experiments In (Shared)
Identities
9. Dialogic Historying through Research-Creation
10. Resisting
Research
11. Visual Journaling as a Field Guide for Thinking Through Making
12. In the Space Between the Lines
13. Parallax of Grief and Restoration
14.
The Veiled Camel Camels Secrets
15. Experiment with Art Research: Becoming
the oddist
16. After Campeche: An Arts-Based Research Approach to Exploring
Masculinity
17. El Callejón del Hospital
18. Our
Chapter, Your
Chapter Part
3: Translations/Relations: Experiments in Writing To Each Other
19. Lineage
of Affection: A Letter
20. A Single Connection: Urbana-Bogotį
21. To Meet in
Gesture: A Place, a Dance, a Drawing, a Study
22. Bitįcora de un Viaje
23.
Our Monsters, Our Breath
24. Translating Tea: Interpreting Relationality of
Tea Ceremony in Collaborative Gatherings
25. Land-Art Relationships in
Chanoyu Practice: Repair with Foraged Materials
26. Letter to the Queen of
Art Education
27. Letter to Paulina as a Letter to You
28. Companion, Peace
29. A Promise to Return: Sustained Correspondence as an Act of Love and
Relational Study
30. Learning to Love: A Letter of Becoming via Citational
Politics
31. Friendship as Scholarship: A Path for Living Inquiry Together
32. Traces of Friendship as Inquiry; Epilogue: An Aggregate of Bursting Suns
Sarah Travis is Assistant Professor of Art Education in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Azlan Guttenberg Smith is a PhD student in writing studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Catalina Hernįndez-Cabal is Instructor of women's and gender studies in the Academy for Transdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech University, USA.
Jorge Lucero is Full Professor of Art Education in the School of Art and Design and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
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