Rethinking Pecha Kucha as Inquiry: Intersecting Multisensory Preparation and Performances to Construct Knowledge

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

To engage in broader public discourses/debates, we demonstrate/perform pecha kucha (Japanese for chit chat) as inquiry to explore how knowledge construction happens recursively during the preparation and performance of, and engagement with pecha kucha. Pecha kucha is a multimedia (visual and auditory) presentation of image and sound with 20 slides shown/narrated for 20 seconds each, totaling six minutes and forty seconds (6:40). The rest of the time is allotted for pecha kucha (chit chat) with the audience. In this panel, we explore how preparing, presenting and interacting guided by the pecha kucha format informed our individual inquiry, knowledge construction of our empirical studies, and our methodological moves. We focus on the visual, auditory, embodied performance, and engagement with audience members.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education

Chair

• Joe Norris, Brock University

Presenter

• Kakali Bhattacharya, Kansas State University

Papers

• Writing for Performance: Embodied Creativity - Anne M. Harris, Monash University

• Understanding Entangled Relationships Between Un/interrogated Privileges: Tracing Research Pathways With Art, Duoethnography, and Pecha Kucha - Kakali Bhattacharya, Kansas State University

• Unity of Form and Content: Revisiting the Pecha Kucha to Disseminate Performative Research Through Videotape - Joe Norris, Brock University; Brad McDonald, Brock University

• "... But I Am Not a Performer": The Poetic Possibilities of Pecha Kucha for the Visual Artist - Alexandra Cutcher, Southern Cross University

Discussant

• Rita L. Irwin, The University of British Columbia