The Most Unnatural Act: Interdisciplinarity and Working Across the Arts

Abstract

In this paper we report on our initiative over the last several years to articulate and deepen our understanding of interdisciplinarity across disciplines, but particularly through the arts. In this paper art and analysis attempt to speak across disciplines to one another. By incorporating our ideas regarding the interdisciplinary properties of art in an alternative article form -one unlike the traditional formal schema of academic publishing -we invite readers to engage in an intertextual interpretation, and to consider the many forms that may express research. Reading across, over, behind and in the margins of the intertexts we have provided, may contribute to a better appreciation of individual and collective ways of understanding, being, and acting.