A/R/T/ography

Educational and Artistic Research

There is no clear categorical distinction between “educational” and “artistic” research as there are overlaps and commonalities. Artistic research strives for a felt knowledge - knowledge that is acquired through sensory and emotional perception. ARTography is an ABR methodology of living inquiry. Loss, shift, and rupture are fundamental concepts or metonyms for ARTography. They create presence through absence, become tactile, felt, and seen.

Artist Researcher

divides/creates double words; expanded combinations to enable branching out A /R /TTeacher

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ARTographers are interested in intersections and spaces in-between. The idea of living inquiry that is continuous, is a way of life and becoming for Artist/ Researcher/ Teacher. It is relational, interconnected, and multidimensional and is thus fluid and flexible.

A/R/Tography, an arts-based research methodology, emphasises the process (praxis) through which practitioners draw upon their Artist, Researcher, and Teacher identities to artistically engage (poesis) in research and (re) question their understandings (theoria).

The A/R/Tographer is interested in the interstitial spaces of known that lie between, the liminal amidst outsider/insider or artist, researcher, teacher, and writer. A central focus of A/R/Tography involves practitioners reflecting on tensions during the process of artmaking and research, honouring and critically writing about these moments as they emerge.

Arts Based Methodology is: Doing, Making and Knowing