Mere and Easy by Jorge Lucero

Author:Jorge Lucero
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780252099472
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2016-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Unearthing Common Roots: Corresponding Contents

With the experience of finding that with different contexts came different assumptions and priorities, we cooled off our search for kinship for a while. The reawakening of interest came with this journal of Visual Arts Research special issue where we found, in the call for papers, many resonating interests once again. We therefore adopted the alternative hypothesis that Research into Practice and A/r/tography were fundamentally kindred but had developed in different contexts—a hypothesis that would account for the differences identified in the previous section. We therefore embarked on an analysis of our two respective positions and have found many corresponding meanings in the underlying conceptual frameworks. In particular, the six renderings described by Springgay, Irwin, and Kind (2005) share corresponding meanings with the eight criteria for PbR that we described in Biggs and Büchler (2008). Both articles defined each dimension of a larger theoretical framework—be it as a “rendering” or as a “criterion”—but were clear about the dynamic interconnectedness of these dimensions in the understanding of what is arts research to each community.

In our article “Eight criteria for practice-based research in the creative and cultural industries” (Biggs & Büchler, 2008), we differentiated between four ontological criteria of academic research and four further epistemological issues that related to the lived experience of the artist researcher. We now call the latter subject-specific PbR issues. Although in the 2008 article we framed these four issues in terms of the problems that arise when artists produce academic research, they serve to describe what is different about the fundamental belief system of the artist when confronted with the worldview of the traditional academic community. In this regard, the six renderings that Springgay, Irwin, and Kind present in their 2005 article “A/r/tography as Living Inquiry Through Art and Text” describe an arts worldview that corresponds to the one described by the eight criteria and issues.

In Biggs and Büchler (2008), we introduce four generic research criteria: question and answer, method, audience, and knowledge; and four PbR-specific issues: the role of text and image, the relationship between form and content, the function of rhetoric, and the manifestation of experience. Springgay, Irwin, and Kind (2005) introduce six renderings as contiguity, living inquiry, openings, metaphor/metonymy, reverberations, and excess. In the remainder of this article, we discuss the correspondence between the arts worldviews as presented in these two texts, in order to reveal our perception of the fundamental kinship that exists between the communities of Research into Practice and A/r/tography. This is not, however, a linear correspondence (indeed there is not even a corresponding number of renderings to criteria and issues), but rather the fabric of renderings and fabric of criteria and issues describe corresponding conceptual frameworks.

The choice of articles may seem odd given that there are superficial dissimilarities and contextual similarities between them and as such they seem to serve as poor representatives of the two previous stages in our journey of discovery of kinship. However, we feel that the role that each text plays in defining arts research for each community is what makes them fundamentally similar.

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