Walkings-through paint: A c/a/r/tography of slow scholarship

ABSTRACT

This visual essay portrays a walkings-through of experience, journeys, and engagements positioned as a c/a/r/tography. The assemblage of this c/a/r/tography draws upon Deleuzoguattarian notions of affect and the carte, the methodology of a/r/tography, and contemporary art and research ambulatory practices. The walkings-through are staged in the event of painting, which itself draws upon notions of movement, journey, and affect. Positioning this work is a project entitled the “Peripatetic Inquiry,” which seeks to document collaborative walking individually and collectively in observation of the practices of writing, artmaking, reading, documenting, and thinking in movement, both in place and displaced, through the events and vagaries of the temporal. The wanderings of this inquiry are entwined in both the embodiments of walking as well as the expressions of engagement as a moving-through, a performance, a creative and participatory event, and documenting of walk. Moving gently, meditatively, and thoughtfully in the spirit of slow scholarship and the subsequent spaces for wonder, we engage with and through a restorative encounter with place, displacements, and roaming.

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Contributors

Alexandra Lasczik Cutcher is currently Senior Lecturer in Arts Education at the School of Education at Southern Cross University. She is Research Leader of the Creativity, Arts and Education Research Group [CreArE]. She was awarded an OLT (Office for Learning and Teaching, Australian Government) Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2014). Alexandra's current research framings are around arts-based educational research, movement and language.

Rita L. Irwin is Professor of Art Education and Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. While her research interests include arts teacher education, artist-in-schools programs, and socio-cultural issues, she is best known for her work in expanding how we might imagine and conduct arts practice based research methodologies through collaborative and community based collectives.

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