Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry [Hardcover]

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 Enquiryis 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.

Estelle Barrettis Senior Lecturer, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Australia.

Barbara Boltis Senior Lecturer in Visual Media, University of Melbourne, Australia. She is a practising artist and the author ofArt Beyond Representation(I.B.Tauris).

List 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