Walking the Talk: Geostories and Transnational A/r/tography

This chapter mapsMap/mapping how a visual journal activity of walking withPublic art public artArtpublic art as a pedagogic practice in artArt educationEducation evoked an emerging disposition of transnationalTransnational/transnationalism a/r/tography, shaped by trait renderings that build upon an established body of a/r/tographic research. Rana, Susana, and Elly undertook individual walks in home-lands as expressions of geographies of self-in-relation, as a part of their independent study that Anita instructed, and in turn, how an unfolding dialogueDialogue about walkingWalkwalking with public artArtpublic art diffractively transformed their community of inquiryInquiry, co-creating new understandings and worldviews by drawingDrawing on underlying geomorphic energies that connectConnect the sensorial and the body, to discrete physicalPhysical landscapesLandscape throughPublic art public artArtpublic art. This inquiryInquiry attends to movementsMovemovement between reflective and diffractive discourses by focusing on conjunctive spaces, the hyphen—and as a space of becoming-withBecoming-with, where conceptConcept-creation, in homage to DeleuzeDeleuze, Gilles and GuattariGuattari, Félix (Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (2005). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (B. Massumi, Trans.). University of Minnesota.), embraces the potentialPotential influence of geography as philosophy in artArt as research. Improvising allegorically by purposefully highlighting the axis of the affect and natural forcesForce, as openings to ongoing exchangesExchange, resulting in a geo-architecture for artwork scholarshipScholarship to articulate their ‘response-ability’ reading encountersEncounter with public artArtpublic art diffractively, and to speculate on the potentialPotential development of the oeuvre of transnationalTransnational/transnationalism a/r/tography as diffractionDiffraction-in-action.