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Only 30 spaces still available for registration!

CALL FOR ARTISTS IN ALL MEDIA

A digitally presented exhibition of painting, drawing, textiles, photography, printmaking, mixed media, sculpture, digital art, and video.

Submission Deadline is May 1, 2006

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Looking forward to your participation!

Unsettling Conversations-SIX Key Presentations, three coffee house performances and dinner hosts to entertain you and Everyone is a Participant!

How will we participate together?

Key Presentators will do one of the following:

1. Create a collaborative arts-based inquiry and presentation with colleagues and peers especially for this event. We are curious about your experience, and the issues and questions that emerge during the process.

2. Present a collaborative arts-based research project that you and others are engaged in currently or in the recent past. Speak to the experience, challenges, and its contribution to education.

Group presentations will be ONLY be 30 minutes long. A 60 minute participatory conversation about the work and the questions and issues evoked by your presentation will be facilitated by you and your group following your presentation.

Participants (which is EVERYONE present!) will be doing the following:

1. Attend and engage in critical and creative inquiry based conversations/deconstructions around the shared events.

2. Share thoughts and concerns, ideas and challenges evoked (or provoked) during presentations, at the dinner table or during the coffee house.

3. Indulge in networking, making connections, and sharing stories during coffee breaks, or lunchtime or midnight walks along Spanish Banks!

Interruption. Intervention. Installation. Interplay.

Here's an example. From April to June, a group of new scholars pursuing their doctoral degrees are investigating an issue (yet to be announced) through an arts based inquiry. In June they will present their work and speak about their experience. How did the inquiry unfold? What were the tensions? What insights emerged? How will this work be documented? This group will then lead a participatory conversation by asking participants to respond. Perhaps by creating a one minute television ad, or through collaborative visual representation of the issues or questions that were evoked. Or in a spirited whole group conversation. What happens when new scholars come to an arts-based inquiry? How do we, through their work, come to understand the complexities and challenges of engaging in arts-based inquiry?

Questions?

(These questions are offered as a starting point. Please feel free to explore other questions.)

1. What are the ethics of arts-based inquiry in educational research? (Who cares?)

2. Are arts-based educational researchers guilty of navel-gazing?

3. Who are the collaborators in collaborative arts-based research? What is collaboration?

4. What is research? What is good research? What is good Art? Am I a good researcher?

5. What are the fears of the arts-based researcher? Should graduate students be encouraged to do arts-based research? Is there a tenure-track position after an Arts-based research dissertation?

6. Who's winning the aesthetics/process debate? Is language a key player that we have overlooked?

7. Why the resistance? Who’s resisting? Who’s persisting?

8. Why do challenges to the “rigour” of arts based inquiry continue to be significant? Is there a positioning, language, or a way of engaging in this conversation without becoming trapped in the language of dichotomies?

9. Is there an academic home for arts-based research? Education? Performance Studies? Cultural Studies? Who owns arts-based research?