NEWS

Upcoming Conference Presentations

Labyrinths as Ritual Art: A  Pedagogy of Inquiry/Witnessing/Listening to the Sacred. Multi-media paper presentation. Co-presenter Nane Ariadne Jordan. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, ARTS-SIG, May 26-29, 2007. The University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask.

A Transformative Learning Community: Being with Women Writing Women. Multi- media presentation. Co-presenters Valerie Triggs, Nane Ariadne Jordan, Jeannie Stubbs, Annie Smith, Wendy Nielson & Lynn Fels.  Canadian Society for the Study of Education, CASWE, May 26-29, 2007. The University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask.

Transforming Public Spaces: A/r/tographic Inquiry as Public Pedagogy Through the Arts. Multi-media presentation. Co-presenters Rita Irwin, Kit Grauer, Pauline Sameshima & Valerie Triggs.  Canadian Society for the Study of Education, ARTS-SIG, May 26-29, 2007. The University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask.

Mapping Public Spaces: Mapping Public Pedagogy through the Arts. Co-presenters Rita Irwin, Valerie Triggs & Gu Xiong. Canadian Association of Geographers, May 29-June 2, 2007. The University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask.

Richgate: A Community-Engaged Art Project. Multi-media presentation. Co-presenters Valerie Triggs & Gu Xiong. Refracting Pacific Canada: New Directions in Research on Citizenship, Race and Migration. March 15-17, 2007. Faculty of Arts, The University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC.

New Publications

Elicit Bodies
Art Exhibition & Performance Ritual
R. Michael Fisher & Barbara Bickel
Published by In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute
Edited by Nan Ariadné Jordan, Elicit Bodies is a catalogue that offers a visual discourse of aesthetic and intellectual inquiries into the art work of R. Michael Fisher & Barbara Bickel. With essays and an interview by illustrious Canadian artists-writers, Yvonne Owens, Eva Tihanyi, and Jordan, as well as a DVD of the performance ritual as documented by artist Leslie Stanick, this 35 page book is a tour de force in collaborative intertextual engagement of the sensitive and sacred.
ISBN NO. 0-9697347-1-0
Limited number of copies available $30 Canadian
Order from bickel.barbara@gmail.com
Review by Yvonne Owens
Interview by  Eva Tihanyi

Women Writing Women Collective, Annie Smith, Nane Jordan, Barbara Bickel, Valerie Triggs, Lynn Fels, Wendy Nielsen, Jeannie Stubbs (2007). Evoking desire...and irreverence: A collection of women writing women. Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Complexity Science and Educational Research, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Available: www.complexityandeducation.ca

Bickel, Barbara (2006). Crossing the waterline: A ritual inquiry. In K. Keifer-Boyd & D. Smith-Shank (Eds.). Visual Culture  and Gender 1(1), 86-91. http://www.emitto.net/visualculturegender

Fisher, R. Michael & Bickel, Barbara (2006),"The Mystery of Dr. Who?: On A Road Less Travelled in Art Education," The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, Volume 26: 28-57.

Irwin, Rita L., Beer, Ruth, Springgay, Stephanie, Grauer, Kit, Gu, Xiong, & Bickel, Barbara. (2006). The Rhizomatic  relations of a/r/tography. Studies in Art Education. 48(1), 70-88.

Bickel, Barbara (2007). Embodying Exile: Performing the “Curricular Body”. In D. Freedman & S. Springgay (Eds.). Curriculum and the Cultural Body. NY: Peter Lang

Bickel, Barbara (in press). Unveiling a sacred aesthetic: a/r/tography as ritual. In R. Irwin, C. Leggo, P. Gouzouasis, K. grauer & S. Springgay (Eds.). Being with a/r/tography. The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Bickel, Barbara (in press). Who will read this body? A/r/tographic Statement. In M. Cahnmann & R.     Siegesmund (Eds.). Arts-Based Inquiry in Diverse Learning Communities: Foundations for  Practice. Mahway, NJ:  Lawrence  Erlbaum Associates.

Bickel, Barbara (2006). Book Review of: Irwin, R. L., & de Cosson, A. (Eds.). (2004). A/r/t/ography: Rendering self through arts-based living inquiry. Vancouver, BC: Pacific Educational Press. Studies in Art Education, 48(1), 118-122.

Bickel, Barbara (2005). Embracing the arational through art ritual and the body. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Imagination and Education. Imagination Education Research Group (Simon Fraser University). Vancouver, Canada, http://www3.educ.sfu.ca/conferences/ierg2005/papers.php

Bickel, Barbara (2006). From artist to a/r/tographer; An autoethnographic ritual inquiry into writing on the body. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy 2(2).

Bickel, Barbara & Fisher, Vanessa (2005). Awakening the divine feminine: A stepmother-daughter collaborative journey through art making & ritual. Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering 7(1), 52-67.

Bickel, Barbara (in press). Writing the body/resistance/endurance: An a/r/tographical inquiry. Educational Insights online journal.

Tihanyi, Eva. Interview with Barbara Bickel.
Pulse Niagara. June 2003 issue. Ontario.

Tihanyi, Eva. Interview with Barbara Bickel..
Niagara Current Magazine. Summer 2003 issue. Ontario.
www.niagaracurrent.com Tihanyi, Eva. An Interview with Barbara Bickel.
Artichoke Magazine: Writings about the Visual Arts, Spring 2003. Vancouver, BC.
www.artichoke.ca

Independent Curating

2006 Fearology of Technology: A phenomenolgy of “Educational” Weapons of Mass Destruction, mixed media art by R. Michael Fisher. Educational Insights (Art Seen) online journal at http://www.educationalinsights.ca/

2006 Oneiric Glasshouse Walking, Installation by Alex de Cosson. Educational Insights (Art Seen) online journal at http://www.educationalinsights.ca/

2004 Sacred Waltz, Paintings by Rahat Neveed Masud & poetry by Sohaila Javed, Educational Insights (Art Seen) online journal at http://www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v09n01/exhibits/index.html

2003 Desire, Disgust and disrepair: The Body in Education, Sylvia Wilson Kind & Stephanie Springgay. Co-curated with June Kaminski, Educational Insights (Art Seen) online journal at http://www.educationalinsights.ca/

2000 Spirit of Women: A Celebraton of International Women’s Day. Co-curated with Marylou Riordon- Sello, co-sponsored by The Vancouver Community Arts Council; The Unitarian Church of Vancouver; The Women’s Spiriutality Celebration, Chalmers Inst. Vancovuer School of Theology.