TY - JOUR
T1 - The Unsayable in Arts-Based research
T2 - On the Praxis of Life Itself
AU - Visse, Merel
AU - Hansen, Finn Thorbjørn
AU - Leget, Carlo
PY - 2019/6/4
Y1 - 2019/6/4
N2 - Arts-based research (ABR) provokes different ways of thinking about how art relates to knowledge in research. There are few authors, however, who explicate their view on aesthetics in the context of ABR and the type of knowledge that it generates. Accordingly, this article clarifies an aesthetic view in the context of a phenomenological approach to ABR. Ample arts-based researchers explore questions that touch upon the liminal nature and complexities of our lived experiences. Phenomenology is about that exactly: It leans into the unsayable dimensions of our reality and is interested in poetic and apophatic knowing. Apophatic knowing is a negating approach to understanding the unsayable, that is, a way of “nonknowing.” It can be practiced as a silent receptiveness. Consequently, we propose a Gadamerian approach to aesthetics that perceives ABR as an event. We argue for a poetics of research that is about being open and responsive to the movements of the artwork that ABR generates. Thus, by being receptive to movement, the enigma of phenomenality or life itself becomes the heart of ABR.
AB - Arts-based research (ABR) provokes different ways of thinking about how art relates to knowledge in research. There are few authors, however, who explicate their view on aesthetics in the context of ABR and the type of knowledge that it generates. Accordingly, this article clarifies an aesthetic view in the context of a phenomenological approach to ABR. Ample arts-based researchers explore questions that touch upon the liminal nature and complexities of our lived experiences. Phenomenology is about that exactly: It leans into the unsayable dimensions of our reality and is interested in poetic and apophatic knowing. Apophatic knowing is a negating approach to understanding the unsayable, that is, a way of “nonknowing.” It can be practiced as a silent receptiveness. Consequently, we propose a Gadamerian approach to aesthetics that perceives ABR as an event. We argue for a poetics of research that is about being open and responsive to the movements of the artwork that ABR generates. Thus, by being receptive to movement, the enigma of phenomenality or life itself becomes the heart of ABR.
KW - arts-based methods
KW - existential phenomenology
KW - interpretive phenomenology
KW - methods in qualitative inquiry
KW - phenomenology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066980061&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1609406919851392
DO - 10.1177/1609406919851392
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1609-4069
VL - 18
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - International Journal of Qualitative Methods
JF - International Journal of Qualitative Methods
ER -