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To be engaged in the practice of a/r/tography means to inquire in the world through an ongoing process of art making in any artform and writing not separate or
illustrative of each other but interconnected and woven through each other
to create additional and/or enhanced meanings. A/r/tographical work are often
rendered through the methodological concepts of contiguity, living inquiry,
openings, metaphor/metonymy, reverberations and excess which are enacted and
presented/performed when a relational aesthetic inquiry condition is
envisioned as embodied understandings and exchanges between art and text,
and between and among the broadly conceived identities of
artist/researcher/teacher. A/r/tography is inherently about self as
artist/researcher/teacher yet it is also social when groups or communities
of a/r/tographers come together to engage in shared inquiries, act as
critical friends, articulate an evolution of research questions, and present
their collective evocative/provocative works to others.
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