Experiments in Art Research How Do We Live Questions 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 stories?laying bare the transformative power of unconventional teaching methods, risky endeavors, and the breaking of scholarly norms?and 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 Can’t 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 Camel’s 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-Bogotá 21. To Meet in Gesture: A Place, a Dance, a Drawing, a Study 22. Bitácora 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 Hernández-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.