Practice as Research: Context, Method, Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt

• Publisher: I. B. Tauris
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio-based doctorates frequently favoured over traditional research. Yet until now there has been little published guidance for students embarking on such research. This is the first book designed specifically as a pedagogical tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book’s framework and individual chapters provide concrete examples of studio-based research in art, film and video, creative writing and dance, each contextualised by a theoretical essay and complete with references. More than a handbook, the volume draws on thinkers including Deleuze, Bourdieu and Heidegger in its examination of the relationship between practice and theory, demonstrating how practice can operate as a valid alternative mode of enquiry to traditional scholarly research. Taking pains to elaborate methodologies, contexts and outcomes, and emphasising the process of enquiry and its relationship to the research write-up or exegesis, this is an indispensable tool for educators and students.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
Introduction - Estelle Barrett......Page 14
1 Interest: The Ethics of Invention - Paul Carter......Page 28
2 The Magic is in Handling - Barbara Bolt......Page 40
3 History Documents, Arts Reveals: Creative Writing as Research - Gaylene Perry......Page 48
4 Cutting Choreography: Back and Forth Between 12 Stages and 27 Seconds - Dianne Reid......Page 60
5 'Silent' Speech - Annette Iggulden......Page 78
6 Chamber: Experiencing Masculine Identity Through Dance Improvisation - Shaun McLeod......Page 94
7 Rhizome/Myzone: A Case Study in Studio-Based Dance Research - Kim Vincs......Page 112
8 A Correspondence Between Practics - Stephen Goddard......Page 126
9 Creating New Stories for Praxis: Navigations, Narrations, Neonarratives - Robyn Stewart......Page 136
10 Foucault's 'What is an Author': Towards a Critical Discourse of Practice as Research - Estelle Barrett......Page 148
11 Rupture and Recognition: Identifying the Performative Research Paradigm - Brad Haseman......Page 160
12 The Exegesis as Meme - Estelle Barrett......Page 172
Notes......Page 178
References......Page 182
Contributors......Page 194
Appendix......Page 198