Open Access“Institutionalized States of Information Abstinence”
Author(s) -
Kathleen A. Hare
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
art/research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-3771
DOI - 10.18432/ari29540
Subject(s) - poetry , embodied cognition , erasure , context (archaeology) , poetics , reading (process) , ethnography , the arts , sociology , psychology , computer science , visual arts , art , literature , linguistics , history , artificial intelligence , philosophy , anthropology , archaeology , programming language
In this study, I provide applied examples of using cut-up poetic inquiry as an arts-based research method for analyzing erasure poetry. The erasure poetry was composed by five poet-participants and me during a sensory ethnography that explored embodied experiences of a sexual educator training program. I first overview erasure poetics in the context of sexuality education. I explain how erasure poetry as method can interrupt authoritative proclamations of truth, while also providing a technique to grapple with complex, corporeal data – central topics in sex education research. I then theorize cut-up poetic inquiry as an additional form of erasure, asking and illustrating how the processes of cut-up can distill information to enable emergent analytic insights in the context of my research. Throughout, I meditate on how erasure poetry as an arts- based research method can contribute to discussions of language, discourse, and embodiment in sex education research.