Art-Based Research

Question 1

Art-Based Research

Answer 1

‘…Can be defined as the systematic use of artistic processes, the actual meaning of artistic expressions in all of the different forms of the arts, as a primary way of understanding and examining experience by both researchers and the people they involve in their studies’

Question 2

Art-Based Research

Answer 2

Some call it ‘art informed research’ – qualitative research influenced by the art (Cole and Knowels, 2008) - minimizes the chance of being mis-constructed

• Facilitates a practice of unique view of the world
• Art piece can express the phenomenon discussed
• Not always texts but other types of expressions

Question 3

Art-Based Research

Answer 3

• Can engage various senses
• Has a believe that we experience the world through our bodies, through our senses
• ‘We do not have bodies, we are bodies’
• Art-based researchers look to the experiences holistically, as the mind and body are interconnected
• Seek to access bodily knowledge

Question 4

Art-Based Research

Answer 4

• Descriptive and Evocative research
• Gives opportunity to experience a situation in a form that allows to walk in shoes of another (Eisner, 2008)
• Allows diverse ways to approach specific topic
• Engage people emotionally and experientially
• Can generate data which is deeply personal
• Communicates emotional aspects of experience
• More process not just product
• Has potential to give voice to the voiceless