Volume 5, Issue 1
2015

Critical Approaches to Arts-Based Research

ISSN 1835 – 2776

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    Volume 5, Issue 1

    Editorial – Critically Evolving: Critical Approaches to Arts-Based Research
    by Anne Harris, Mary Ann Hunter, Clare Hall
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    Volume 5, Issue 1.1

    The Cartographic Network: Re-imagining university learning environments through the methodology of immersive cartography
    by David Rousell
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    Volume 5, Issue 1.2

    Dance as Intervention: Disrupting Gendered Norms of Embodiment
    by Jack Migdalek
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    Doing sociology with musical narratives
    by Clare Hall
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    Slamming In(to) the Ivory Tower: A Consideration of Slam as Method Glenn Allen
    by Glenn Allen Phillips
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    Volume 5, Issue 1.5

    Towards Articulating an Arts-based Research Paradigm: Growing Deeper
    by Diane Conrad, Jaime L. Beck
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    Volume 5, Issue 1.6

    Towards An Aesthetic Intersubjective Paradigm for Arts based Research: An Art Therapy Perspective
    by Gioia Chilton, PhD, Nancy Gerber, PhD, Victoria Scotti
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    Volume 5, Issue 1.7

    Graffiti in London: Singing Life into Exhibitions and Embodying the Digital Document
    by Helen Gilbert and J.D. Phillipson in dialogue with Peter Morin
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    Volume 5, Issue 1.8

    Painting canvases and performing social justice: The transformative possibilities of arts based research in Indigenous Australian studies with primary children
    by Elizabeth Mackinlay
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    Volume 5, Issue 1.9

    Bodies in the Desert: A Narration of Two Lives and Four Deaths
    by Jake Burdick
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    Volume 5, Issue 1.10

    Seeing the world differently: Supporting autism spectrum expression and creativity through the use of technology in social spaces
    by Stefan Schutt, Paul Staubli, Alberto Rizzo
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    Volume 5, Issue 1.11

    Making Gothic: A/r/tographic attempts to integrate theory and practice
    by Dr. Tracy Fahey
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    Volume 5, Issue 1.12

    The search for a dyadic dramatic qualitative method to generate data
    by Jane Isobel Luton
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    Volume 5, Issue 1.13

    How Students Learn an Arts-Based Approach to Early Childhood Education
    by Koichi Kasahara
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    Volume 5, Issue 1.14

    Shaping Research-Informed Theatre: Working beyond an ‘Aesthetic of Objectivity’
    by Julia Gray, Pamela Baer, Tara Goldstein

Guest Editors

Anne Harris
Mary Ann Hunter
Clare Hall

Arts based research (ABR), its products, processes and critical theorising have come a long way in recent times. Nuanced distinctions indicate the development of the field, as arts-informed research, arts-based research, practice-led research, applied research, and creative participatory action research all claim different relationships with the art and criticality present in such innovative scholarship. Finally, it seems, we are moving away from a defensive stance regarding arts based research and its ‘validity’, and toward a celebration of this proliferation of diverse ways of knowing, theorising and doing research. This ‘coming of age’ is evident in this special issue, which urges readers to move beyond binarised notions of scientific ‘versus’ arts based research that still at times dominates academic research environments and conversations, and outmoded practice/theory divides. For we co-editors and for the authors here, theorising is indeed a creative practice, and goes hand-in-hand with the epistemological and ontological potential of arts-making methods. This issue celebrates the opening of new doors in theorising innovative arts based research from a range of global contexts, theoretical and epistemological frameworks, and inter/disciplines. We avoid any attempt to codify or limit the parameters of what contemporary arts based research is or can be.  Indeed, we seek the opposite: to highlight its ever-expanding possibilities.

The essays here aim to encourage critical analysis and dialogue about the objects and subjects of arts based research for contemporary times, poststructuralist, posthuman and other critical approaches to arts based research, and the interdisciplinary application of performative and practice-led research in transferable methodological models. We are pleased to be able to include digital assets with many of the articles in this special issue. Indeed, the layered and multimodal complexity of arts based ‘outputs’ or artefacts is one of its rich distinguishing features, and it requires commitment from editors and publishers to not always demand a ‘reduction’ back into text-based forms, a diminishment of many forms of ABR. For this we thank the UNESCO editorial and production team, and hope you enjoy this contribution to the critical development of the arts based research field.