Tenting—Creative Enfolding of Space in Educational Research: A Duoethnography by Two Female Academics

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 11:45 am - Gold 4
  In Roundtable Session: Spaces with/in arts based educational research

Abstract

In this project, two transnational art educators engage in a duoethnographic inquiry grounded in posthumanist perspectives, using art-making to explore the metaphor and practice of tenting in relation to support and tension in educational research. Drawing on the tent as both material and concept, we consider how stretching, anchoring, and collapsing mirror the affective and material negotiations of academic life. Through artistic engagement, we trace how support and tension co-constitute each other. Using multisensorial, arts-based methods, we examine how affective forces emerge among our bodies, materials, and surroundings. By mailing tent-inspired artworks and reflections, we foster a creative space for relational dialogue, showing how artistic correspondence can open spaces of care, inquiry, and co-authorship across distance.

Authors

• Yen-Ju Lin, Independent Scholar

• Pin-Hsuan Tseng, Pennsylvania State University