Arts-Based Research (ABR) Special Interest Group (SIG)
Introduction and Background
Arts-based research is based upon the premise of utilizing various forms of artistic practice as a primary means of investigating and understanding human experience, extending to more materially sensitive, discursive, and intuitive ways of knowing. Grounded in a worldview of pluralistic ontologies and dialectic aesthetic epistemologies, ABR seeks to disrupt usual binaries such as thought and sense, mind and matter, the human and the nonhuman, and space and time resulting in more rhizomatic, intersubjective, and social constructions. It is in this spirit that we tackle the theme of the conference: Qualitative Inquiry in the Present Tense: Writing a New History.
Through provocation and contested interactions that result in startling crystallizations, permutations, and mutations, ABR invites exploration of multi-dimensional human sensory, emotional, and embodied phenomena otherwise inexpressible and out of reach through formal, academic, and explanatory analysis. ABR also transcends disciplinary boundaries and is intended to therefore have applications across multiple domains and impact global socio-cultural and socio-political arenas. While the potential contributions of ABR are vast, the pragmatic issues of methodology, translation, evaluation, credibility, ethics, and, in some cases, dissemination, require ongoing productive and creative discourse.
Organizers:
Nancy Gerber, Ph.D., ATR-BC. [email protected]
Amber Ward, Ph.D. [email protected]