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"As an artist researcher I use the arts as form, method, analysis and more as the inquiry itself moves us toward social justice and equity. My work, often done in communities, does its best to be participatory and community based but there are often practical and economic considerations that need discussion. My work recognizes the long-term commitment and hence understands the years it takes to work within and build relationships with communities. It also is familiar with the importance of using art as process and product in communities and how staying with arts practices, staying in the metaphors, reveals significant subjective and
community shifts."(From, Writing Toward Homelessness, An Artist Researcher's Reflections, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" pg. 45)
Nancy Viva Davis Halifax Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Clinical Disability Studies, York University brings her interdisciplinary experience to her teaching and research which is located at the intersections of health care, gender, embodiment, difference and disability, arts informed research and pedagogy. She has worked broadly in health research using the arts and documentary and participatory methods with economically displaced persons in Canada. Her research uses the arts for sustaining and creating conversations around social change, self determination, social auto/biographies and for engaging communities in cultural democracy.
