Surrealist Portraiture: A Phantasmagorical Account of Un/natural Disaster

• In Event: 46.086 - Roundtable Session 16
  In Roundtable Session: 46.086-23 - Surrealist Portraiture, Nap-Ins, and Lived Curricula: Explorations in Arts-Based Educational Research

Abstract

In this creative account, we explore the possibilities and challenges of using a form arts-based research we term surrealist portraiture (Author, 2012) as a way of making generative meaning out of the “vexingly volatile and constantly changing circumstances” of educational research, and more particularly education research that takes place within the context of un/natural disaster (Bauman, 2007, p.3). The main objective of this presentation/performance/ paper is to introduce surrealist portraiture as a mode of arts-based inquiry and a pedagogical practice of liquid modernity (Bauman, 2007).

Authors

• Laura M. Jewett, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

• Jolanta Smolen Santana, Oregon State University