The article methodologically positions and subsequently describes an ethnographic-based performance art piece staged as the author's keynote address at the UK's first international conference on Arts-Based Educational Research held at Queen's University Belfast. The article draws on existing arts-based research literature and a range of participant `voices' — including the voice of the author as `impresario' whose research provided the ethnographic data and facilitated the performance, the voices of the artists as `performers' who created and staged the piece, and the voices of the audience as `spec-actors' who made the journey through the performance — to make its case and hopefully encourage other qualitative researchers to a performative (re)presentational embrace.
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