A ntagonistic arts-based research (ABR) sounds like a dangerous proposition. It conjures images of self-serving, artist-academics causing pain and exploiting their institutional power. It carries the stench of the colonial research practices of past and present that so many in the art education field labor not to replicate. Antagonistic ABR seems counter to the emotional impulse of the current moment, when divisive American political discourse begs for scholastic communities to practice empathy and caregiving. Antagonism is, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary (n.d.), “opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle” or, perhaps worse for research, “actively expressed opposition or hostility.” To be an antagonistic researcher is, therefore, to act in opposition to others or ideas with the intention of learning something. It flies in the face of research ethics best practices to assert that the productivity of artist– researchers could increase by fostering participant discomfort. To deny the risks of antagonistic ABR is naïve, but I believe ignoring the urgent need for art education to make space for more confrontational, socially engaged ABR is a more dangerous alternative. Over the course of the past 30 years, socially engaged art—a form of visual art that is centered around the involvement of participants in the creation of a work—has risen in popularity. Today, this form of art is also referred to as social practice, participatory art, and live art and is characterized by “To deny the risks of antagonistic ABR is naïve, but I believe ignoring the urgent need for art education to make space for more confrontational socially engaged ABR is a more dangerous alternative.”

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基于社会参与，基于艺术的研究中的对抗性案例

基于艺术的对立研究（ABR）听起来像是危险的主张。它让人联想起自我服务的艺术家学术界的形象，这些形象引起痛苦并利用其体制力量。它承载着过去和现在殖民地研究实践的恶臭，以至于在艺术教育领域中有如此之多的劳动无法复制。对抗性的ABR似乎与当前的情感冲动背道而驰，当时分裂的美国政治话语恳求学者社区实践同情和关怀。根据Merriam-Webster在线词典（nd），对抗性是“反对相冲突的力量，趋势或原则”，或者对于研究而言更糟的是“主动表达反对或敌意”。因此，成为对立的研究者是为了学习某些东西而与他人或思想对立。面对研究伦理的最佳实践，我们断言艺术家-研究人员的生产力可以通过增加参与者的不适感来提高。否认对抗性ABR的风险是幼稚的，但我认为，忽略对艺术教育的迫切需求，以便为更具对抗性和社会参与性的ABR腾出空间是一种更为危险的选择。在过去的30年中，社会参与艺术（一种以参与者参与作品创作为中心的视觉艺术形式）日益流行。如今，这种艺术形式也被称为社会实践，参与式艺术和现场艺术，其特征是“否认对抗性ABR的风险是天真的，