Artistic Research and Pedagogy: Mapping Contested Terrain, Resource Extraction, and Culture

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 39
  In Roundtable Session: Exploring Contested, Professional, and Liminal Spaces With Arts-Based Educational Research Methodologies

Abstract

This paper explores interdisciplinary artistic/research addressing current issues and contested spaces at the intersection of energy extraction, communities and environment in Canada’s rural/remote northwest. It examines how art can offer alternate perspectives - ones that embrace the complex ways in which humans encounter the world around them. (Sullivan, 2006). It presents a case study from “Trading Routes”, a federally funded research/creation project that examines how acts of creating and sharing knowledge through cultural production and pedagogical encounters have implications for social and political change. It considers how examples of artistic practice, situated within participatory action research and mapping methodologies, including cybercartography (Pyne & Taylor, 2012), produce a radical form of counter-mapping, inclusive of multiple perspectives, lived experience, and critical thought.

Author

• Ruth S. Beer, Emily Carr University of Art + Design