Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Heartbeats

2009; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 15; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/1077800409333155

1552-7565

Mary E. Weems, Carolyne J. White, Patricia Alvarez McHatton, Clarence Shelley, Tim Bond, Ruth Nicole Brown, Lois Ruskai Melina, Lois Ann Scheidt, Jackie Goode, Phoenix de Carteret, Jonathan Wyatt,

Participatory Visual Research Methods

One of the ways to participate as change agents in the struggle toward a true participatory global democracy is constructing spaces in which to communicate across race, ethnicity, religion, class, and culture. This collaborative, auto/ethnographic performance text was started during a pre-conference workshop titled “Heartbeats: Writing Performance Texts,” I designed and facilitated with the help of my colleague Carolyne J. White. The purpose of the workshop was to encourage colleague participants from around the globe to construct spiritual and physical spaces for creating sacred, performance texts grounded in their lived experiences both as researchers and as socially conscious beings in the world; and to share them out loud in an ad hoc learning community environment. The environment was created in part, by transforming a traditional university meeting space into a space filled with cultural artifacts, photographs, music, and the voices of men and women gathered together for a brief period of time, in the hopes of encouraging the construction of more sessions like this in traditional university conference settings.