Abstract
Don MacDougall’s death was a rupture in our community of artist scholar educators. After all, how can we imagine our death? Heidegger (1953/2010) argues that death is ‘eminent immanence’ (pp. 241–251). For Derrida (1993), it is an aporia as it is something un/imaginable as a living being. Attached to Don’s research at the time of his death brought about encounters we had not expected. We take up our own creative research practices in response to his writing, through memory work, attentive engagement, and a commitment to deterritorilizations of representation. We encounter and interrupt his text through our responses as we study art encounters that examine affect, territorialization, power and art.
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Alvermann (2000), referring to Deleuze and Guitarri’s (1987), wrote about rhizoanalysis and the possibilities it might hold for looking ‘once again’ at the data: ‘Deleuze and Guattari recommend that once we have drawn a map, it is important to put the tracing back on the map. By inspecting the breaks and ruptures that become visible when the more stable tracing is laid upon the always becoming map, we are in the position to construct new knowledge, rather than merely propagate the old’ (p. 117).
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Brault and Naas (2001) argue that Derrida cites the dead and often turns to the ‘corpus of the corpse’ (p. 28) for the ‘final word’ (p. 28) as a tribute to what they have taught him and to the questions that, in living or in death, they have provoked for him. Our ending is a play on this passage, and in keeping with the ontological commitment of this paper, is a testament to our will for keeping Don’s work alive.
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MacDougall, D., Irwin, R.L., Boulton, A., LeBlanc, N., May, H. (2018). Encountering Research as Creative Practice: Participants Giving Voice to the Research. In: Knight, L., Lasczik Cutcher, A. (eds) Arts-Research-Education. Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61560-8_3
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