I am a practitioner of artography (A/R/Tography) living in Japan.
What is Artography?
Irwin and Springgay's (2008) artography (A/R/Tography) means "graphy" as described by an artist, researcher, and teacher. By connecting production, research, and education, it provides a perspective of "in between," reexamines the meaning of each, and shakes up the boundaries between them. Artography involves creating a way of experience in which theory, practice, and production are collapsed and transversely linked, crossing art disciplines and other disciplines (Irwin and Springgay 2008).
Sullivan (2010), Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Penn State University, is both an artist and an artography practitioner. He positions the atelier experience as an intellectual and creative inquiry and the atelier as a place where research is conducted to produce socially and culturally significant knowledge and understanding, and he describes it as a challenge to redefine the kind of research conducted in the context of the atelier by more appropriately representing what artists are doing when they are researching. This is a challenge to redefine the kind of research that takes place in the context of the studio by better representing what artists do when they are researching.
Irwin, R. L., and Springgay, S. (2008) A/r/tography as Practice-based Research. In Springgay, S., Irwin, R. L., Leggo, C., and Gouzouasis P. (eds.) Being with A/r/tography, 13-7, Sense.
Sullivan, G. (2010) Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in Visual Arts 2nd ed, Sage.
