Axes of resonance in music education
An artographic exploration
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https://doi.org/10.7577/ar.5402Keywords:
a/r/tography, artography, messy research, academia, slow research, slow professorAbstract
This article discusses the potentials of a/r/tography aka artography against the background of life in an accelerating academia that is increasingly shallow and unfulfilling, and where quality is only indirectly measured using bibliometrics. We find Hartmut Rosa’s concept of resonance to be useful when discussing the values that get lost in such a system. We appreciate the arguments for a slower, deeper, and more collegial way of working. It is where the distractions of ordinary life intersect with the vision of a more profound, qualitative way of working that we make our arguments for an artographic way of being. However, we also identify challenges by drawing on experiences in our own working lives, and specifically our ongoing collaborative research project. Exploring options for navigating around the constraints, we suggest a ‘toolbox’ for how the individual artographer can contribute to making academia a more resonant space.
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