Practice as Research: Context, Method, Knowledge by Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt

By Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt

Practice-led learn is a burgeoning zone around the inventive arts, with studio-based doctorates usually favoured over conventional examine. but beforehand there was little released counsel for college students embarking on such learn. this can be the 1st publication designed particularly as a pedagogical instrument and is based at the version utilized by so much learn programmes. A accomplished creation lays out the book's framework and person chapters offer concrete examples of studio-based examine in paintings, movie and video, inventive writing and dance, each one contextualised via a theoretical essay and whole with references. greater than a instruction manual, the quantity attracts on thinkers together with Deleuze, Bourdieu and Heidegger in its exam of the connection among perform and conception, demonstrating how perform can function as a sound replacement mode of enquiry to conventional scholarly learn. Taking pains to intricate methodologies, contexts and results, and emphasising the method of enquiry and its courting to the examine write-up or exegesis, this can be an vital device for educators and scholars.

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By Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt

Practice-led learn is a burgeoning zone around the inventive arts, with studio-based doctorates usually favoured over conventional examine. but beforehand there was little released counsel for college students embarking on such learn. this can be the 1st publication designed particularly as a pedagogical instrument and is based at the version utilized by so much learn programmes. A accomplished creation lays out the book's framework and person chapters offer concrete examples of studio-based examine in paintings, movie and video, inventive writing and dance, each one contextualised via a theoretical essay and whole with references. greater than a instruction manual, the quantity attracts on thinkers together with Deleuze, Bourdieu and Heidegger in its exam of the connection among perform and conception, demonstrating how perform can function as a sound replacement mode of enquiry to conventional scholarly learn. Taking pains to intricate methodologies, contexts and results, and emphasising the method of enquiry and its courting to the examine write-up or exegesis, this can be an vital device for educators and scholars.

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Vertical and diagonal lines almost obliterate the horizontal ones, and in some places there are unexpected whirls and imperceptible merging of colours, so that it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. So it is with federal, state, 24 PRACTICE AS RESEARCH and local responsibilities in the chaotic marble cake of American government. (Frenkel 1986: 62) As I have documented elsewhere, the discovery of the Kimberley sandstone was decisive in determining the character of the artwork we made.

These effects of national interest will be missed so long as the “nearly wide open anything goes” collective desire of self-becoming is not regarded as a legitimate THE ETHICS OF INVENTION 19 research field. Creative researchers and “industry partners” (to follow the present rubric) can only broker strong collaborations if they share this mythopoetic goal. Public artists, say, can have no effect on public space design if their commissioning agency segregates them from the design process as whole.

It was as though Marian had always existed, this Marian, the Marian being written, the Marian coming to life under my fingers in my drafts and under Serena’s fingers in her red journal. Keeping a Journal I kept a journal as I travelled over Skye, and I consider this journal to be part of my studio enquiry. At first I expected the journal to be a notebook for recording details such as dates and place names and historical facts, but it actually became a creative work in itself. The physical act of writing in that journal became part of the writing of the novel, although few of the words from it can be found in the text of Water’s Edge itself.

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