Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic

Helen Lomax, Kate Smith and Barry Percy-Smith
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Helen Lomax: University of Huddersfield, UK
Kate Smith: University of Huddersfield, UK
Barry Percy-Smith: University of Huddersfield, UK

Sociological Research Online, 2022, vol. 27, issue 3, 541-549

Abstract: This inaugural special issue of ‘Beyond the Text’ brings together a collection of visual arts (animation, creative and fine art, film, photographs, and zines) produced by children, young people, families, artists, and academics as part of co-created research during the 2020–2021 coronavirus pandemic. Our aim, in making these pieces available in this new publication format, is to illustrate the potential of visual arts as a form of co-creation and knowledge exchange which can transcend the challenges of researching ‘at a distance’, enable participants and co-researchers to share their stories, and support different ways of knowing for academic, policy, and public audiences. This is not to suggest that such methods offer transparent windows into participants’ worlds. As the reflections from the contributing authors consider, visual arts outputs leave room for audience interpretations, making them vulnerable to alternative readings, generating challenges and opportunities about how much it is possible to know about another and what is ethical to share. It is to these issues of ethics, representation, and voice that this special issue attends, reflecting on the possibilities of arts-based approaches for knowledge generation and exchange in and beyond the coronavirus pandemic.

Keywords: animation; arts-based methods; children; coronavirus pandemic; COVID-19; film; marginalisation; remote research; young people families; zines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/13607804221098757

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