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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.
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PRACTICE AS RESEARCH PRACTICE AS RESEARCH APPROACHES TO CREATIVE ARTS ENQUIRY Edited by Estelle Barrett and Barbara Bolt Published in 2007 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan a division of St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Copyright © Estelle Barrett & Barbara Bolt The right of Estelle Barrett & Barbara Bolt to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by the editors in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978 1 84511 432 9 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: available Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall From camera-ready copy edited and supplied by the editors CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements ix Foreward xi Introduction Estelle Barrett Chapter 1 Interest: The Ethics of Invention Paul Carter 15 Chapter 2 The Magic is in Handling Barbara Bolt 27 Chapter 3 History Documents, Arts Reveals: Creative Writing as Research Gaylene Perry Chapter 4 1 35 Cutting Choreography: Back and Forth Between 12 Stages and 27 Seconds Dianne Reid 47 Chapter 5 “Silent” Speech Annette Iggulden 65 Chapter 6 Chamber : Experiencing Masculine Identity Through Dance Improvisation Shaun McLeod Chapter 7 81 Rhizome/MyZone: A Case Study in Studio–based Dance Research Kim Vincs 99 vi CONTENTS Chapter 8 A Correspondence Between Practices Stephen Goddard Chapter 9 Creating New Stories For Praxis: Navigations, Narrations, Neonarratives Robyn Stewart Chapter 10 Chapter 12 123 Foucault’s ‘What is An Author’: Towards a Critical Discourse of Practice as Research Estelle Barrett Chapter 11 113 135 Rupture and Recognition: Identifying The Performative Research Paradigm Brad Haseman 14