Artography

A/r/tographical work is rendered through the concepts of contiguity, living inquiry, openings, metaphor/metonymy, reverberations and excess which are enacted and presented/performed when a relational aesthetic inquiry approach is envisioned as embodied understandings and exchanges between art and text, and between and among the broadly conceived identities of artist/researcher/teacher.

Renderings enable artists, researchers, and teachers to interrogate the interstitial spaces between things, for example image and word, text and audience, researching, pedagogy and artmaking.

Renderings are visual, aesthetic, educational and textual performances that play alongside one another, reverberating in excess. A/r/tography exists in an interdisciplinary space, the 'unnamed something' or 'without', constituting a new field of study. This condition of 'without' illustrates the shaping of inquiry imbued with discomfort and struggle opening up new understandings.

Interdisciplinarity as concepts portrays a dynamic, intersubjective space that allows for a 'groping' of ideas. This interactivity inspires rigour through deep inquiry and mediation. Concepts/renderings are evaluated by their ability to provide access to phenomena not otherwise attainable or to provocative ideas.

A/r/tography is a living practice; a life writing, life creating inquiry. Through attention to memory, identity, autobiography, reflection, meditation, story telling, interpretation and/or representation (among other forms), artists/researchers/teachers expose their living practices in evocative or provocative ways.

A/r/tographers re-represent their questions, practices, emergent understandings, and creative analytic texts and compositions as they integrate knowing, doing and making through texts and/or /performances that convey meaning rather than facts.

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.

For a/r/tographers, relational inquiry is about each researcher enacting their inquiries with, in, or through the participation of other a/r/tographers. Through communities of a/r/tographers, relational inquiry is developed through the perceptual patterns of space, place and time.

A/r/tographical work is constantly emerging and it is not uncommon for a/r/tographers to understand their research differently a year after a process or product is completed, or after it is shared within different contexts and places.

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A/r/tographical work is rendered through the concepts of contiguity, living inquiry, openings, metaphor/metonymy, reverberations and excess which are enacted and presented/performed when a relational aesthetic inquiry approach is envisioned as embodied understandings and exchanges between art and text, and between and among the broadly conceived identities of artist/researcher/teacher. Renderings enable artists, researchers, and teachers to interrogate the interstitial spaces between things, for example image and word, text and audience, researching, pedagogy and artmaking. Renderings are visual, aesthetic, educational and textual performances that play alongside one another, reverberating in excess. A/r/tography exists in an interdisciplinary space, the 'unnamed something' or 'without', constituting a new field of study. This condition of 'without' illustrates the shaping of inquiry imbued with discomfort and struggle opening up new understandings. Interdisciplinarity as concepts portrays a dynamic, intersubjective space that allows for a 'groping' of ideas. This interactivity inspires rigour through deep inquiry and mediation. Concepts/renderings are evaluated by their ability to provide access to phenomena not otherwise attainable or to provocative ideas. A/r/tography is a living practice; a life writing, life creating inquiry. Through attention to memory, identity, autobiography, reflection, meditation, story telling, interpretation and/or representation (among other forms), artists/researchers/teachers expose their living practices in evocative or provocative ways. A/r/tographers re-represent their questions, practices, emergent understandings, and creative analytic texts and compositions as they integrate knowing, doing and making through texts and/or /performances that convey meaning rather than facts. 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. For a/r/tographers, relational inquiry is about each researcher enacting their inquiries with, in, or through the participation of other a/r/tographers. Through communities of a/r/tographers, relational inquiry is developed through the perceptual patterns of space, place and time. A/r/tographical work is constantly emerging and it is not uncommon for a/r/tographers to understand their research differently a year after a process or product is completed, or after it is shared within different contexts and places. Renderings: Contiguity Read more... Living Inquiry Read more... Openings Read more... Metaphor/Metonymy Read more... Reverberations Read more... Excess Read more...
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