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STEPHANIE SPRINGGAY, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Art Education and Women's Studies

Stephanie Springgay completed her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia. Her dissertation, Inside the Visible: Youth understandings of body knowledge through touch, examines adolescent experiences of the body in and as visual culture. Her teaching, research, and artistic explorations focus on issues of relationality-posing bodied ways of knowing through proximity, encounters, and vulnerability. In addition, as a multidisciplinary artist working with installation and video-based art, she investigates the relationship between artistic practices and methodologies of research.

Currently she is working on a research project that explores women's subjective experiences of bodied space through community-engaged art. How do women encounter, negotiate, and materialize embodied space through art, and how does art enable this representation and mediation to occur? This research project is part of a larger study funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada investigating community-engaged art as a space of meaning making within transnational communities. How can transnational communities participate in and create community engaged art as a means of negotiating, communicating, and documenting personal and collective experiences of living in transnational communities? Participants involved in the study are located in and move between Richmond, BC, Canada and urban areas in China and Hong Kong.

In addition, the study closely examines a new methodology called a/r/tography, which has emerged within social science research. A/r/tography is a form of arts-based research that is engaged in living inquiry. A/r/tography is a process of un/folding image and text together. It is a way of living and being in the world as an artist, researcher, and teacher. It is a research methodology that intentionally un/settles perception by living and creating research that is redolent, evocative, and that bears witness to difficult knowing.