Art as Inquiry: The Autopsy of an [Art] Experience

Abstract

In this article, I explore transgressive experience by embracing my personal encounters with art and life. In accordance with a phenomenological approach, I emphasize immediate experience, description, and analysis of the world as a source of knowledge and understanding. From the perspective both of art education and research, I attempt to show the enslaving effect of conventions. Furthermore, I trace and lay bare the origins of my transgressive experience from a methodological viewpoint by describing and interpreting the moments and threads that link them with time, place, and situations, thus making transparent my actions as a researcher. I travel upstream, first discussing writing, then reflecting on the composition and materials of the case that I present, and concluding with the question of how my chosen approach serves the research task. I finish with a more general meditation in the form of a prose poem on introspective research.

Con Artist: Non-Cosplay Participation at Popular Culture Conventions as an Arts-Based Method of Inquiring Into Resistance and the Undoing of Rules

“…Next, I engage with and interpret the data drawn from each Con as its own unique episode (e.g., Saarnivaara, 2003) through four analytical themes—suspending, bodying forth, sensuous encountering, and being informed (Seeley, 2006; Seeley & Reason, 2008). These themes represent a presentational way of knowing (Heron, 1992; Seeley, 2006) that suits the movement and creative production associated with attending Cons.…”

Témoignage en mots et en images d’une expérience de reconstruction identitaire chez un artiste réfugié dans un contexte interculturel québécois

“…Le processus narratif, qu'il soit sous forme de mots ou d'images, sert à marquer(délimiter),àarticuler(mettreenordre)etclarifier(expliquer)l'expériencetemporellevécue,c'est-à-dire qu'ilparticipeàlaconstructionde l'identiténarrative (Ricoeur, 1990 (BochneretEllis,2003;Chenail,2008).Onconstateque l'oeuvreartistiquedevientunesituationd'interlocution,unactedeprisedeparoleayantlepouvoirdetransformer le monde et les perceptions. Le témoignage mis en scène artistiquement s'inscrit de façon plus générale dans le courant émergent universitaire de l'arts-based research (ABR), de la narrative inquiry (Saarnivaara, 2003) et artist/research/teacher(A/R/T) (IrwinetdeCosson,2005).…”

Artistic Research: Artistic as Research vs Artistic as Method

“…The second paradigm considers artistic practice as a method. In this view, artistic research rests on a merging of art and inquiry (Saarnivaara, 2003) in the form of holistic or integrated approach (Hunter et al, 2002). In this paradigm, problem-centre or issue-centre of the research and the problem at the centre of research dictates the methodology (Leavy, 2015;Makela, & Routarinne, 2006;Biggs & Büchler, 2007.…”