Mapping Experience Through Art-Based Research

Abstract

In this visual essay, I focus on the possibilities in contemporary art that open up new approaches in art-based research. Aesthetic mapping and the creative strategy of the conceptual collage were used to investigate the lived experience, including interrelationships with locations and teaching practices. Aesthetic mapping was used as a method of documentation of a living inquiry that uncovers my relationships with places and people. A conceptual collage of notions and images was used to produce meanings for that experience. Visual material was generated through the collection and transformation of images related to place. Part of this visual material stems from a teaching project that took place in a village in northern Greece.