ART, RESEARCH, STORY

Art, Research, Story draws on a range of materials from the social sciences, the visual arts, social

theory, history, and digital media to ask three interrelated questions:

• What can we learn from exploring—and disrupting—the borders between creativity

and social research? Between making ‘art’ and understanding social structure,

politics, or history?

• How does the way we tell a story also shape what that story tells? How is what we

learn from a story partly about the form that the story takes?

• What methods can feminist researchers and artists use to both analyze society, and

move us to want to change society and ourSelves?

The class will create a space of study, experiment, and (serious!) play that allows us to engage these questions, while also discovering new questions that emerge from our collective conversations. The syllabus offers many resources to inspire us: scholarly writings, digital art, live performance, poetry, graphic novels, hip hop, and photography. But our most valuable resource is our own collective curiosity and engagement, which we will use to understand the burgeoning transdisciplinary field of arts-based research practices.