A/r/tography

Rita L. Irwin is a distinguished university scholar and professor of art education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. As a scholar she is best known for her work in a/r/tography, teacher education, curriculum studies and sociocultural concerns.Alexandra Lasczik is professor of arts and education in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross University, Australia. She is currently associate dean research and director, Higher Degrees Research in the Faculty of Education. She is an expert educator with 40 years’ experience in the visual arts. Anita Sinner is a Professor of Art Education at The University of British Columbia. Her interests include artwork scholarship, international art education, stories as research, and community art education.Valerie Triggs is a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina. She has published research about teacher education field experience, curriculum theory and the ecological potential of aesthetic experience in pedagogic and curricular practice.

'A/r/tography is an essential read for arts researchers. It spans the ideas of both established and emergent scholars. As a current Ph.D. student, it was an enjoyable experience to read this new edition. The book’s structure is organized into distinct parts that encompass diverse research ideas and methods – a ‘sympoiesis’ of ethical, relational and material concepts. It delves into the authors lived experiences, encompassing, human, non-human and more than human assemblages. It proposes new methodologies, frameworks and possibilities for future research practices, highlighting new ways of conducting arts-based research that foreground contemporary pedagogical praxis. This book embodies Irwin’s non-hierarchical, rhizomatic inclusiveness through including texts that speak to critical and caring ways in which a/r/tography can promote a deeper understanding of our relational existence through ‘living inquiry’ to foster stewardship of our global ecologies.'

• List of Figures Land Acknowledgments AcknowledgmentsForeword: On Practicing Intimacy – Stephanie SpringgayAn Introduction – Rita L. Irwin, Alexandra Lasczik, Anita Sinner, and Valerie TriggsPart I: Relationality and Renderings Rendering Our Relations – Rita L. IrwinEssential Readings Chapter 1:  A/r/tography: A Metonymic Métissage (2004) – Rita L. IrwinChapter 2:  A/r/tography as Living Inquiry Through Art and Text (2005) – Stephanie Springgay, Rita L. Irwin, and Sylvia Wilson KindChapter 3: Research and Creation: Socially Engaged Art in The City of Richgate Project (2010) – Ruth Beer and Rita L. Irwin with Kit Grauer and Gu XiongChapter 4:  A/r/tographic Collaboration as Radical Relatedness (2010) – Barbara Bickel, Stephanie Springgay, Ruth Beer, Rita L. Irwin, Kit Grauer, and Gu XiongConversationsChapter 5: Folding With-in A/r/t Ovulary Texts: Radical Writing and Making in a Pandemic – Geraldine Burke and Kathryn ColemanChapter 6 A/r/tography: On Rendering a Selected Lexicon – Blake E. SmithChapter 7 Critical Softness in an A/r/tographic Affective Commonwealth – Nicole Y. S. Lee Part II: Ethics and Embodiment A/r/tographic Practice in Action – Anita Sinner Essential ReadingsChapter 8: Educational Arts Research as Aesthetic Politics (2008) – Valerie Triggs and Rita L. Irwin with Ruth Beer, Kit Grauer, Gu Xiong, Stephanie Springgay, and Barbara BickelChapter 9: Through the Looking Glass: Reflecting on an Embodied Understanding of Creativity and Creative Praxis as an A/r/tographer (2018) – Kathryn S. ColemanChapter 10: Inclusivity and Aesth/ethics in Third Participatory A/r/tographic Spaces (2014) – Marta Madrid ManriqueChapter 11: (Re)Imagining Early Childhood Teacher Education—Belonging, Being, and Becoming in the Arts Through A/r/tography (2014) – Geraldine Burke, Corinna Peterken, Clare Hall, and Rosemary Bennett ConversationsChapter 12: Partiality as an Ethics of Embodiment in A/r/tographical Research – Adrienne Boulton and Natalie LeBlancChapter 13: Between Voice and Literacy: Provoking A/r/tographic Possibilities for the Future – Patricia OslerChapter 14: A Different Difference: Ethics and Embodiment as Betweenness – Elly Yazdanpanah  Part III: Movement and Materiality An Orientation – Alexandra LasczikEssential Readings Chapter 15: A/r/tography: Always in Process (2018) – Carl Leggo and Rita L. IrwinChapter 16: A/r/tographic Peripatetic Inquiry and the Flâneur (2018) – Alexandra Lasczik Cutcher and Rita L. IrwinChapter 17: Educational Research, Photo Essays, and Film: Facts, Analogies, and Arguments in Visual A/r/tography (2013) – Ricardo Marin-Viadel, Joaquin Roldan, and Miguel A. Cepeda-MoralesChapter 18: A/r/tography (2019) – Natalie LeBlanc and Rita L. IrwinConversationsChapter 19: Slipping: A Perspectival Consciousness in A/r/tography – Barbara BickelChapter 20: A/r/tographic Becomings, Choreographies, and Materialities – Sylvia KindChapter 21: A/r/tography as Teacher in Movement and Materiality – Katie Hotko and Jemma Peisker Part IV: Propositions and PotentialityActual Events – Valerie TriggsEssential ReadingsChapter 22: Following A/r/tography in Practice: From Possibility to Potential (2014) – Valerie Triggs, Rita L. Irwin, and Dónal O’DonoghueChapter 23: Pedagogy and the A/r/tographic Invitation (2019) – Valerie Triggs and Rita L. IrwinChapter 24: Walking Propositions: Coming to Know A/r/tographically (2019) – Nicole Lee, Ken Morimoto, Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, and Rita L. IrwinChapter 25: Site/Sight/Insight: Becoming a Socioecological Learner Through Collaborative Art Making Practices (2019) – David Rousell, Alexandra Lasczik, Rita L. Irwin, David Ellis, Katie Hotko, and Jemma PeiskerConversationsChapter 26: Propositions and Potentials: Ongoing Provocations of the A/r/tographic Oblique – Alexandra Lasczik and David RousellChapter 27: From a Desk in the A/r/tography Lab into the Future – Marzieh MosavarzadehChapter 28: Potentials and Propositions: Obliques Lived, Living, and Not-Yet Lived – Ken Morimoto Part V: Afterword Ways of Looking at the Oblique in A/r/tography (2012) – Carl Leggo Notes on ContributorsIndex