The Relational Art Inquiry Tool
Supporting participants and researchers from non-Arts backgrounds to engage in and with a/r/tography
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https://doi.org/10.26512/vis.v16i2.20755Keywords:
A/r/tography. Arts-based methods. Arts-based methodologyAbstract
This article argues the potential for a / r / tographic inquiry within sport and exercise research contexts, and outlines how a relational art inquiry tool (RAIT) was developed to support non-Arts background participants to enact a / r / tography. Prior to this investigation, a / r / t / ography methodology has been primarily used within social science and arts contexts, with qualitative sport and exercise researchers yet to employ the approach. Due to the embodied ways of knowing and evocative potential integral to a / r / tographic research, this research sought to devise a set of guiding tools that could be used to support researchers and participants from non-Arts backgrounds. This was done as a way of assisting them to see and find ways to visually articulate complexity, uncertainty and potential 'unseens' occurring within storied accounts. Development of the RAIT tool is informed by a diverse range of theory and ideas underpinning a / r / tography methodology (Irwin, 2004), Gallas' elements of inquiry (2011) and Hetland's Studio Habits of Mind (2013). In this paper, we present the results of the RAIT tool and the results obtained in this study. The results of this study are presented in the following section.
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