Becoming in the style of a/r/tography: A c/a/rtography of sorts

Abstract

This paper begins by asking what does becoming mean in a/r/tography? Meandering through different possibilities that a/r/tography invites, the paper becomes an opportunity for two scholars to think with the concept, how it travels, and different ways of being with it that enable us to write together. In doing so we acknowledge the importance of experimental and emergent approaches to research in art education. The authors fold in rich meanings from in and outside of the field of art education that help grow, inform, and enrich our work. We believe that a/r/tography enables us to experiment with a transdisciplinary approach to research weaving in concepts that we study through our material explorations and their theoretical situating. The process of making this paper, and the form this paper takes, resonate with the ways in which our research and how we practice as artist researchers, are complicated by ideas shared between many fields. We begin in part one with a journey through theory. Part two of this paper is documentation of the author’s c/a/r/tographic exchange. Perhaps what becomes most notably apparent, and of interest, is how we are always informed by research and concepts in the humanities.