@article{jcrae 4919, author = {Natalie LeBlanc}, title = {In/Visibility of the Abandoned School: Beyond Representations of School Closure}, volume = {31}, year = {2014}, url = {http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jcrae/article/id/4919/}, issue = {1}, doi = {10.2458/jcrae.4919}, abstract = {In/Visibility of The Abandoned School is a practice-led form of visual inquiry that investigates school closure in two ways: first, through a photographic practice that documents my experience in and with schools as they stand closed on the periphery of society, boarded up and locked off from the public; and second, through a site-specific installation performed with a closed school located in British Columbia, Canada, in which a temporal site of exchange took place. This research contributes to arts-based research by attending to the roles that photography and installation, as conceptual art practices, can play in a practice-led research project and it responds to a call made by arts-based researchers to investigate ways that art practice can be conceptualized as a mode of research (O Donoghue, 2009; 2011; Sullivan, 2004; 2006; 2010; 2011).}, month = {8}, pages = {55-88}, keywords = {school closures,photography,practice-led research,visual inquiry}, issn = {2832-8388}, publisher={University of Arizona Libraries}, journal = {Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education} }