Gradients-in-Relation: Distance as Continuous Variations in Artography

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

With the AERA theme of cultivating equitable education systems for the 21st Century, the objective of our symposium is to demonstrate how artist-educators perform a vital pedagogic role in the communities we serve, activating conversations to respectfully engage in current issues that have worldwide implications: pandemic response-ability and consciousness raising about diverse beliefs, behaviors, cultures and systems. Building on our ongoing international research partnership on walking artographically, panelists share visual, poetic and performance pandemic-inspired provocations. These provocations demonstrate how ‘art is advocacy-in-action’ as a medium of communication and as a mechanism to critically create transnational dialogues across, with and between peoples and places. Our inquiry embraces gradient-in-relation as difference, inclusion and equity, to find productive ways to overcome divisiveness.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Angela Inez Baldus, University of British Columbia

Papers

• Living Inquiry: Going the Theoretical Distance - Anita Sinner, University of British Columbia

• Artographic Dispositions: Methodological Possibilities for Continuous Variations - Rita L. Irwin, University of British Columbia

• A Visual Prelude to Intensities - Mariya Kovalevska, Concordia University

• A Collaborative Poetic Prelude to Ambiguities - Elmira Sarreshtehdari, University of British Columbia; Yasaman Moussavi, University of British Columbia

• A Performative Prelude to Paradoxes - Elly Yazdanpanah, Concordia University - Montreal