Becoming an artist: life histories and visual images Tamboukou, Maria and Weiss, Gali 2013, Becoming an artist: life histories and visual images. In Sandino, Linda and Partington, Matthew (ed), Oral history in the visual arts, Bloomsbury, London, Eng., pp.171-180. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Becoming an artist: life histories and visual images Author(s) Tamboukou, Maria Weiss, Gali Title of book Oral history in the visual arts Editor(s) Sandino, Linda Partington, Matthew Publication date 2013 Chapter number 17 Total chapters 17 Start page 171 End page 180 Total pages 10 Publisher Bloomsbury Place of Publication London, Eng. Keyword(s) oral history narrative research visual arts Summary Chapter summary: In this chapter, we consider the experiences of an art/research experiment that took place in the context of the annual conference of the British Sociaological Association (BSA), held at the University of East London in April 2007. The essay is in four parts: in the first section, the researcher gives the context of the project that underpinned the BSA event, mapping its theoretical directions and methodological moves. In the second section, the artist tells stories of becoming through words and images. The force of the artist’s narrative challenges and reconfigures discursively constructed boundaries between the researcher and the artist, initiating a dialogic encounter that unfolds in the third section as a visual/textual interface. This encounter revolves around the quest for meaning, which is after all what oral history is about (Portelli, 2011). Our quest for meaning actually inspired us to write about and problematize the BSA event. In this light, the final section looks critically into some of the questions that have arisen, situating them within wider problematics in the field of oral histories and narrative research. Book summary: Interviews are becoming an increasingly dominant research method in art, craft, design, fashion and textile history. This groundbreaking text demonstrates how artists, writers and historians deploy interviews as creative practice, as 'history', and as a means to insights into the micro-practices of arts production and identity that contribute to questions of 'voice', authenticity, and authorship. Through a wide range of case studies from international scholars and practitioners across a variety of fields, the volume maps how oral history interviews contribute to a relational practice that is creative, rigorous and ethically grounded. ISBN 0857851977 9780857851970 9780857851987 0857851985 Language eng Field of Research 160899 Sociology not elsewhere classified 190502 Fine Arts (incl Sculpture and Painting) 200205 Culture, Gender, Sexuality Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture HERDC Research category B1.1 Book chapter Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30065812 Document type: Book Chapter Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 18 Sep 2014, 10:53:17 EST Thu, 18 Sep 2014, 10:54:15 EST Fri, 19 Sep 2014, 08:34:38 EST Mon, 22 Sep 2014, 14:43:06 EST Mon, 22 Sep 2014, 14:44:12 EST Tue, 23 Sep 2014, 12:47:34 EST Mon, 13 Oct 2014, 11:00:32 EST Mon, 13 Oct 2014, 11:07:09 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 168 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 18 Sep 2014, 10:53:16 EST by Gali Weiss