A/r/tography as Living Inquiry Through Art and Text

Abstract

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

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