Pieced together: Collage as an artist’s method for interdisciplinary research – a very interesting piece of research by Kathleen Vaughan

Below are details of a very interesting piece of research published by Kathleen Vaughan – especially in relation to some of the themes on this site e.g. collage and/as postmodernism, self-as-text, narrative, studies, holism – and many others.

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Pieced together: Collage as an artist’s method for interdisciplinary research

Kathleen Vaughan

Kathleen Vaughan, BA, AOCA, MFA, is a visual artist, teacher, writer, and doctoral candidate in education at York University, Toronto, Canada

Abstract: As a visual artist undertaking doctoral studies in education, the author required a research method that integrated her studio practice into her research process, giving equal weight to the visual and the linguistic. Her process of finding such a method is outlined in this article, which touches on arts-based research and practice-led research, and her ultimate approach of choice, collage. Collage, a versatile art form that accommodates multiple texts and visuals in a single work, has been proposed as a model for a “borderlands epistemology”: one that values multiple distinctive understandings and that deliberately incorporates nondominant modes of knowing, such as visual arts. As such, collage is particularly suited to a feminist, postmodern, postcolonial inquiry. This article offers a preliminary theorizing of collage as a method and is illustrated with images from the author’s research/visual practice.

Keywords: aesthetic practice, artistic practice, textile sculpture, interdisciplinary

Citation

Vaughan, K. (2004). Pieced together: Collage as an artist’s method for interdisciplinary research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 4(1), Article 3. Retrieved [insert date] from http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/backissues/4_1/html/vaughan.htm

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