This ongoing project delivers practical, phenomenologically-based methodological resources that are not readily or comprehensively available within current arts scholarship.

Originally a collaborative enquiry conducted with colleagues from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore it began by addressing a specific question: How might researchers in the emergent fields of modern and contemporary S-E-Asian art history best identify, engage and think with art practices and projects that may never have been exhibited or studied and whose specificity would most likely be obscured if previously-formulated, generally Eurocentric art historical and theoretical models are the only ones deployed?

Drawing on my research in the fields of Merleau-Pontean phenomenology and visual culture, the workshops tested and delivered the following findings:

1) that rigorous research in both emergent and already-familiar terrain must be (re)grounded in pre-conceptual and pre-critical modes of engagement with primary sources. This involves strategic sensitivity to the self-presentation of that material on its own terms, as far as this is possible, and requires the relinquishment of already-established personal and disciplinary presuppositions;

2) that visual methodologies such as drawing and often overlooked descriptive methodologies (including listing, transcription, ekphrasis, paraphrase, (re)enactment and mapping) are particularly effective in forging deep connections with one's source materials and their modes of self-showing;

3) that these phenomenological techniques serve the decolonisation of scholarship;

The project also introduced arts scholars to Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (a qualitative methodology predominantly used in the social and health sciences which uses in-depth, open-ended interviewing techniques and respect for idiosyncrasy to gather and examine rich, experiential data), demonstrating how this can bring rigour to art-historical interview-based research.

It also successfully extended the remit of IPA by demonstrating how its techniques can be applied to the study of images. Indeed, within the context of this project, I developed and have been testing a multi-staged visual methodology which I've called "Interviewing Images".

• Andrews, Jorella G.. 2018. 'Using Phenomenology in Contemporary Arts Research and Pedagogy (Handbook for 3-day Workshop led by Jorella Andrews)'. In: Using Phenomenology in Contemporary Arts Research and Pedagogy. LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 24-26 September 2018. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Andrews, Jorella G.. 2018. 'Starting from below: Phenomenological Interventions in Art History and Visual Culture'. In: Using Phenomenology in Contemporary Arts Research and Pedagogy. LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 24 September 2018. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Andrews, Jorella G.. 2018. 'Using Phenomenology in Contemporary Arts-based Research and Pedagogy. Two-day Workshop'. In: Using Phenomenology in Contemporary Arts Workshop: 2 Day Workshop. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 19 and 26 October 2018. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Andrews, Jorella G.. 2018. 'Decolonising the Self: Phenomenological Strategies'. In: PhD Workshop: Decolonising the Self: Representations of the Self in Art Theory and Practice across Cultures. SOAS, United Kingdom 22 November 2018. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Andrews, Jorella G.. 2019. 'Using Phenomenology in Contemporary Arts Research: an introduction'. In: PhD Workshop. SOAS London, United Kingdom 10 January 2019. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Andrews, Jorella G.; Say, Jeffrey and Veal, Clare. 2019. 'Using Phenomenology in Contemporary Arts Reserach & Pedagogy Workshop 2: Phenomenological encounters with non-western and diasporic objects-images-architeves-&-artworlds (Phenomenology, displacement and decoloniality)'. In: Using Phenomenology in Contemporary Arts Research and Pedagogy. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 21-23 February 2019. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Andrews, Jorella G.. 2019. 'Using Phenomenology in Contemporary Arts Research: an introduction'. In: Test Lab Central St Martins. Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom 1 May 2019. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Andrews, Jorella G.. 2019. '‘Interviewing Images’: Using IPA (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis) in visual arts research.'. In: Pictures and words: combining verbal accounts and visual images within interpretative phenomenological analysis. Phenomenology of Health and Relationships Conference: Creativity and Affect. Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom 22-23 May 2019. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Andrews, Jorella G.. 2019. 'Making our way in semi-obscurity'. In: Extending the Image Workshop with Susan Sentler (LASALLE) for MA Design Expanded Practice students. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 14 June 2019. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Andrews, Jorella G.. 2019. 'Decolonising the Self: Phenomenological Strategies'. In: PhD Workshop: Decolonising the Self: Representations of the Self in Art Theory and Practice across Cultures. University of Tel Aviv, Israel 25 December 2019. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Andrews, Jorella G.. 2020. Interviewing Images: How visual research using IPA (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis) can illuminate the change-making possibilities of place, space, and dwelling. Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 475, pp. 20-31. ISSN 2352-5398 [Article]
• Andrews, Jorella G.. 2021. 'Interviewing Images Workshop'. In: Interviewing Images Workshop Western Arts & Humanities, Western University. Western University, Canada 27 January 2021. [Conference or Workshop Item]

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/27217