There is a substantial body of literature on arts-based forms of research demonstrating scholars' endeavors to theorize the production of the arts as a mode of scholarly inquiry and as a method of representation. However, if arts-based research is to be taken seriously as an emerging field of educational research, then perhaps it needs to be understood as a methodology in its own right. This entails moving beyond the use of existing criteria that exists for qualitative research and toward an understanding of interdisciplinarity not as a patchwork of different disciplines and methodologies but as a loss, a shift, or a rupture where in absence, new courses of action un/fold. This article proposes an understanding of arts-based research as enacted, living inquiry through six renderings of a/r/tography: contiguity, living inquiry, openings, metaphor/metonymy, reverberations, and excess.A substantial body of literature on arts-based forms of research demonstrates scholars' recent endeavors to theorize the production of the arts as a mode of scholarly inquiry and as a method of representation. This article inherits from this scholarly tradition a belief that arts-based forms of research empower and change the manner through which research is conducted, created, and understood. The arts, wrote Maxine Greene (1995), have the distinct power to open our imagination toward the unimagined and the uncertain. Tom Barone (2001a) echoed these sentiments, calling for research that "endow[s] features of our experience with more than a single meaning" (p. 24); research that is playful, exploratory, and expressive. Barone (2001b) and Elliot Eisner's (1995 advocacy for arts-based research have included in their 897

This article responds to agitations occurring in qualitative research related to the incompatability between methodologies and methods, the preponderance of methodocentrism, the pre-supposition of methods, a reliance on data modeled on knowability and visibility, the ongoing emplacement of settler futurity, and the dilemma of representation. Enmeshments between ontological thought and qualitative research methodologies have rigorously interrogated the logic of anthropocentrism in conventional humanist research methods and have provoked some scholars to suggest that we can do away with method. Rather than a refusal of methods, we propose that particular (in)tensions need to be immanent to whatever method is used. If the intent of inquiry is to create a different world, to ask what kinds of futures are imaginable, then (in)tensions need attend to the immersion, friction, strain, and quivering unease of doing research differently.

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