Collaging Awakening and Resistance With/in Artful Inquiry

In this article, we conceptualize collage as artful inquiry. We think with the practices of collaging: shifting and layering materials and ideas, playing and experimenting, composing and juxtaposing, as a way to explore our shared and distinct experiences of awakening, resistance, and reflexivity that engaging in collage as artful inquiry provoked. Thinking with collage as both an artful and conceptual practice shapes how we think and conceive of artful inquiry as a mode of thinking and opens the inquiry process to experimentation, play, and process.

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Published: Mar 18, 2025
Vol/Issue: 32(2)
Pages: 219-231
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Maureen A. Flint