Encountering Research as Creative Practice: Participants Giving Voice to the Research Don MacDougall, Rita L. Irwin, Adrienne Boulton, Natalie LeBlanc and Heidi May Abstract Don MacDougall’s death was a rupture in our community of artist scho- lar educators. After all, how can we imagine our death? Heidegger (1953/2010) argues that death is ‘eminent immanence’ (pp. 241–251). For Derrida (1993), it is an aporia as it is something un/imaginable as a living being. Attached to Don’s research at the time of his death brought about encounters we had not expected. We take up our own creative research practices in response to his writing, through memory work, attentive engagement, and a commitment to deterritoriliza- tions of representation. We encounter and interrupt his text through our responses as we study art encounters that examine affect, territorialization, power and art. Keywords Creative research practice · deterritorialization · affect · marginalia · Deleuze · art encounters · a/r/tography D. MacDougall (✉) c/o Rita Irwin, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada e-mail: john.g.macdougall@gmail.com R.L. Irwin · A. Boulton · N. LeBlanc Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada e-mail: Rita.irwin@ubc.ca A. Boulton e-mail: adriennerbf@gmail.com N. LeBlanc e-mail: natalie.leblanc@ubc.ca H. May Faculty of Arts, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada e-mail: Heidi.may@ubc.ca 31 © Springer International Publishing AG 2018 L. Knight, A. Lasczik Cutcher (eds.), Arts-Research-Education, Studies in Arts-Based Educational Research, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-61560-8_3