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A REVIEW OF LAUREL RICHARDSON\u27S "LONE TWIN: A TRUE STORY OF LOSS AND FOUND"
No full textThis is a review of Laurel Richardson’s book, Lone Twin: A True Story of Loss and Found. The book is powerful – a must-read. Laurel’s stories, questions, knowings, and unknowings offer an insightful narrative around her personal and significant relationships, eliciting an evocative opportunity for self-reflection. It will leave you feeling a strong sense of connectedness; possibly to something missing or perhaps something found
EDITORIAL: VOLUME 5 ISSUE 2
No full textThe Editorial for Volume 5, Issue 2 of Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal
MANTRA AS MEDIUM: CULTIVATING NECESSARY WISDOM IN AESTHETIC INQUIRY
No full textMy quest for necessary wisdom about mothering, teaching, researching—coalescing here as art and research—comes by way of a mantra enacted between mother and daughter onto the world: milk, heat, time. An awareness of mantra as methodologically potent occurred through the artistic practice of drawing with mother’s milk, heat, and time. Traveling through the twists and overlaps of my complicated existence as a mother, artist, teacher, and researcher this paper offers three imaginable potencies for arts-based research: mantra unfolds myth, mantra intensifies listening, and mantra generates reciprocity. This contemplatively and performatively crafted text brings to light these three potencies through multiple modes of data-creation: mantra, time, drawing, sensation, song, memory, connection, affect, photographs, writing, and materiality. Linger with me in the place where unconsumed mother’s milk—fat and water separating in plastic sleeves and bound for the trash in a university childcare setting— coalesced with cultural myths of breastfeeding, embodied memories of labor and returning to work after childbirth, grassy-scented infant’s breath, lullabies, milk scorching on a hot iron, cotton clothing, silver salts embedded in light-sensitive paper, and more. Linger and listen—water, bodies, stories, hidden, unhidden
POST GRADUATE WORK PERMIT AND SOCIAL SUFFERING: (A CASE STUDY)
No full textThis study is an art-based autoethnography that examines the author’s first-hand experience of immigration-related adversities in four drawings created during transitioning to permanent residency in Canada via the Post Graduate Work Permit Program. The article takes a different route from the studies which acknowledge immigrants’ experiences of social suffering yet, explore the possibilities of eventual integration through adaptation and acculturation for immigrants. This article argues that marking suffering as an organic part of integration normalizes suffering and, even can be perceived as an attempt to eliminate the presence of suffering from the discourse. More importantly, this article emphasizes that the social suffering of immigrants cannot be comprehended separately from the entirety of a society that undoubtedly plays a part in inducing their suffering. Artistic content includes the researcher’s drawings made during her time under PGWPP that express her relation to the social landscape in Canada as an international post-graduate transitioning to permanent residency
HEART OF THE MOUNTAIN: A NATURE, ARTS, AND TRANCE-BASED INTERVENTION INTO A MEDICAL CRISIS
No full textThis arts-based co-inquiry engages the intersection of the Western medical-based world/reality and the Natural world/reality. To bridge these worlds the co-authors utilize a spiritual-based trance-formative practice using trance and arts-based inquiry. Instigated by a diagnosis and open-heart surgery of one of the co-authors, the purpose of their project is to offer an example of how a relational approach embracing Nature and art within a connective aesthetic of co-inquiry can offer deep healing and renewal. This spirit healing transcends the physical recovery from the medical intervention, extending a fearful experience into a gift of fearlessness. The writing weaves theoretical, dialogical script, images and poetic texts with an invitation to experience an eight minute art video that includes poetic voice, improvised vocal sounding, visual art and narrative reflection. The story explores the areas of intimate wit(h)nessing, therapeutic resilience and transformative learning at the physical, emotional and spiritual levels
My Stage: Participatory Theatre with Immigrant Women as a Decolonizing Method in Art-based Research
No full textThis article discusses how art-based research can function as a decolonizing research method. Its analysis is based on the collaboration of social work and art education disciplines for advancing social justice and deconstructing power dominances. Empirically, the research builds on a participatory theatre project, “My Stage,” with immigrant women. The project was established as part of a larger interdisciplinary project, “Art Gear,” in Northern Finland, which promoted the bidirectional integration of the local population and people with immigrant backgrounds. The research data were collected through participatory observation and reflective discussions by the social work researcher in the theatre workshops. By the analysis of an interdisciplinary team of social work and art education researchers, we develop a context-sensitive framework of art-based research to advance decolonizing research methods, which contribute to supporting the agency and inclusion of marginalized populations in research and in their integration processes at times of complex and rapid demographic and societal changes
Fingerprints and Pulp: Nomadic Ethics in Research Practice
No full textThis paper thinks with Braidotti’s nomadic ethics through the process of making paper to consider the ethical marks and cuts of doing qualitative research. Through the process of making paper, cutting, soaking, blending, pressing, and drying the debris of my dissertation, I consider questions of representation, ethics, and responsibility in qualitative research. Simultaneously, I consider the relations and interactions made possible through an art installation where the handmade paper was displayed as part of my dissertation defense. I contemplate my interactions and conversations with the participants that attended the installation and how these encounters led to new considerations of ethics and representation through research methodology and art
LOST IS FOUND: NAVIGATING NARRATIVES OF PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY ON THE TENURE TRACK
No full textThe tenure track is a contentious space in which pre-tenure faculty are asked to navigate the corporatization of the university, and uncertainty with regards to the expectations of success to achieve tenure. In this article, we frame the period of pre-tenure as a liminal space, not as a space of inadequacy but as a necessary shelter of respite. Living in a temporary autonomous zone, we find ourselves challenged to lose and find varying aspects of our professional identities as faculty. We use arts-based narratives in the form of micro-storymaking as well as Solnit’s (2005) discussion of what it means to be lost to locate and (re)frame our stories of navigating the tenure track. We argue that the liminal space of pre-tenure, in the context of the “slow” movement is a time of openings that prepare us to embrace and engage in passionate artistic practices as we enter mid-career
A REVIEW OF CHANDAN BOSE\u27S PERSPECTIVES ON WORK, HOME, AND IDENTITY FROM ARTISANS IN TELANGANA: CONVERSATIONS AROUND CRAFT
No full textThis review considers Chandan Bose’s ethnographic study into arts and crafts practices in Telangana, India. Merits of the book include Bose’s nuanced interrogation of ethical complexities in and around ethnographic work, a centring of artisans’ voices through direct quotes, and an emphasis on knowledge as something crucially formed in and through subjective inter-relational connections. Bose draws links between practices of ethnography, art and storytelling. Broaching the book as a collaboration with rather than a study of the artisan community, Bose offers ways of re-seeing research, knowledge, and cultural engagement that will hold relevance across a wide range of fields and practices in and beyond contemporary academies
Review of Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art
No full textIn this contribution, the author reviews the book, Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art. Acknowledging the timely nature of this anthology of essays, interviews, and lesson plans, the reviewer strongly recommends the book for teachers of contemporary art. In the review, the author opens with personal context for the review, a brief overview of contents and a description of the editors’ professional backgrounds. Interested in the usefulness of lesson plans for teachers, the reviewer analyzes the over 43 lesson plans and identifies three themes around which to provide a summary. Salient information is also extracted from essays and interviews. The author concludes by commenting more broadly on contributions and challenges associated with this anthology, troubling the use of the term “lesson plan” to describe social practice and calling for widening the conversation to include art educators and qualitative/post-qualitative researchers whose work focuses on social justice pedagogies