A Contemplative and Artful Métissage of Inquiry and Response

• Main Authors: Mitchell, Jackie, Phillips, Nicholas, Trail, Robyn, Walsh, Susan C, Bickel, Barbara, Bartley, Wendalyn, McConachy, Medwyn
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: OpenSIUC 2020
• Subjects: Métissage; mixed media; life writing; collaboration; sounding; contemplative film; Indigneous; contemplative; arts-based; artful inquiry; narrative; conference presentation; performative; visual; Mi’kmaw; Tibetan Buddhist; spiritual feminist; spiritual; Bhutan; Art and Design; Art Education; Art Practice; Curriculum and Instruction; Curriculum and Social Inquiry; Educational Methods
• Online Access: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/atj/vol5/iss1/7; https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1122&context=atj

In this mixed media métissage, we offer an exploration of artful and contemplative inquiry and response. We are a group of seven artist-researchers who engage with contemplative practices associated with various spiritual traditions, including spiritual feminist, Wiccan, Mi’kmaw, and Tibetan Buddhist, integral to all of which are beliefs about human interconnectedness with the energies of all sentient beings, the Earth, and beings in the spirit worlds. As artist-researchers, we engage with a range of arts disciplines including poetry, creative non-fiction, storytelling, sounding, visual art, filmmaking, and photography. Together, we invite the reader/listener/viewer--as co-creator—into the potentialities of our métissage: the narratives, poems, photographs, visual art, film, and sounding (audio) files—as well as into the spaces between and beyond.