Rhythm and Rumination: A Three-Course Conversation

This article examines “specific productions” or products as these notions are called into question through artistic research. It reports on a pedagogical experiment that I conducted with a group of eighty students at Concordia University in the fall of 2016. Through writing, photography, and video, I document and reflect upon the relationships between pedagogy, research, and artistic production. These samples show that there are problems with attempting to distinguish between everyday acts and finished works. The process documented in the article calls into question the boundaries that we imagine between educating and artistic research. It does so by demonstrating the creative role of the educator in eliciting dialogue through the senses and in directing dialogue through attention to rhythm.