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.

List of Figures 

Land Acknowledgments 

Acknowledgments

Foreword: On Practicing Intimacy – Stephanie Springgay

An Introduction – Rita L. Irwin, Alexandra Lasczik, Anita Sinner, and Valerie Triggs



Part I: Relationality and Renderings 



Rendering Our Relations – Rita L. Irwin





Essential Readings 
Chapter 1:  A/r/tography: A Metonymic Métissage (2004) – Rita L. Irwin

Chapter 2:  A/r/tography as Living Inquiry Through Art and Text (2005) – Stephanie Springgay, Rita L. Irwin, and Sylvia Wilson Kind

Chapter 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 Xiong

Chapter 4:  A/r/tographic Collaboration as Radical Relatedness (2010) – Barbara Bickel, Stephanie Springgay, Ruth Beer, Rita L. Irwin, Kit Grauer, and Gu Xiong





Conversations



Chapter 5: Folding With-in A/r/t Ovulary Texts: Radical Writing and Making in a Pandemic – Geraldine Burke and Kathryn Coleman

Chapter 6 A/r/tography: On Rendering a Selected Lexicon – Blake E. Smith

Chapter 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 Readings



Chapter 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 Bickel

Chapter 9: Through the Looking Glass: Reflecting on an Embodied Understanding of Creativity and Creative Praxis as an A/r/tographer (2018) – Kathryn S. Coleman

Chapter 10: Inclusivity and Aesth/ethics in Third Participatory A/r/tographic Spaces (2014) – Marta Madrid Manrique

Chapter 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
 



Conversations



Chapter 12: Partiality as an Ethics of Embodiment in A/r/tographical Research – Adrienne Boulton and Natalie LeBlanc
Chapter 13: Between Voice and Literacy: Provoking A/r/tographic Possibilities for the Future – Patricia Osler

Chapter 14: A Different Difference: Ethics and Embodiment as Betweenness – Elly Yazdanpanah
 
 
Part III: Movement and Materiality
 
An Orientation – Alexandra Lasczik



Essential Readings 



Chapter 15: A/r/tography: Always in Process (2018) – Carl Leggo and Rita L. Irwin

Chapter 16: A/r/tographic Peripatetic Inquiry and the Flâneur (2018) – Alexandra Lasczik Cutcher and Rita L. Irwin

Chapter 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-Morales

Chapter 18: A/r/tography (2019) – Natalie LeBlanc and Rita L. Irwin







Conversations



Chapter 19: Slipping: A Perspectival Consciousness in A/r/tography – Barbara Bickel

Chapter 20: A/r/tographic Becomings, Choreographies, and Materialities – Sylvia Kind

Chapter 21: A/r/tography as Teacher in Movement and Materiality – Katie Hotko and Jemma Peisker
 


Part IV: Propositions and Potentiality

Actual Events – Valerie Triggs







Essential Readings



Chapter 22: Following A/r/tography in Practice: From Possibility to Potential (2014) – Valerie Triggs, Rita L. Irwin, and Dónal O’Donoghue

Chapter 23: Pedagogy and the A/r/tographic Invitation (2019) – Valerie Triggs and Rita L. Irwin

Chapter 24: Walking Propositions: Coming to Know A/r/tographically (2019) – Nicole Lee, Ken Morimoto, Marzieh Mosavarzadeh, and Rita L. Irwin
Chapter 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 Peisker





Conversations



Chapter 26: Propositions and Potentials: Ongoing Provocations of the A/r/tographic Oblique – Alexandra Lasczik and David Rousell

Chapter 27: From a Desk in the A/r/tography Lab into the Future – Marzieh Mosavarzadeh

Chapter 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 Contributors

Index