Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 Interest: The Ethics of Invention - Paul Carter Chapter 2 The Magic is in Handling - Barbara Bolt Chapter 3 History Documents, Arts Reveals: Creative Writing as Research - Gaylene Perry Chapter 4 Cutting Choreography: Back and Forth Between 12 Stages and 27 Seconds - Dianne Reid Chapter 5 "Silent" Speech - Annette Iggulden Chapter 6 'Chamber': Experiencing Masculine Identity Through Dance Improvisation - Shaun McLeod Chapter 7 Rhizome/MyZone: A Case Study in Studio-based Dance Research - Kim Vincs Chapter 8 A Correspondence Between Practices - Stephen Goddard Chapter 9 Creating New Stories For Praxis: Navigations, Narrations, Neonarratives - Robyn Stewart Chapter 10 Foucault's 'What is An Author': Towards a Critical Discourse of Practice as Research - Estelle Barrett Chapter 11 Rupture and Recognition: Identifying The Performative Research Paradigm -Brad Haseman Chapter 12 The Exegesis as Meme - Estelle Barrett Notes References Contributors Appendix
SynopsisPractice-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. Designed specifically as a research training tool, the book 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. Practice as Research takes pains to elaborate methodologies, contexts and outcomes, and to emphasise the process of enquiry and its relationship to the research write-up or exegesis. Published in a new paperback edition, this is an indispensable tool for educators and students. Book jacket., Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio-based doctorates now increasingly favored over traditional research. This new paperback edition of the first book to be designed specifically as a training tool to guide students embarking on such research will be welcomed by students and educators. The chapters provide concrete examples of studio-based research in art, film, video, creative writing and dance, each contextualized by a theoretical essay, complete with references. More than a handbook, the volume draws on such thinkers as Deleuze, Bourdieu and Heidegger in its examination of the relationship between practice and theory. It takes pains to elaborate methodologies, outcomes and contexts and is a valuable demonstration of how practice can operate as a valid alternative mode of inquiry to traditional scholarly research., Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry is specifically designed as a training 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. Comprehensive in its approach, 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 scholarship.