Practice-led research, research-led practice in the creative arts

Author(s)

• Smith, Hazel
• Dean, R. T.

Bibliographic Information

Practice-led research, research-led practice in the creative arts

[edited by] Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean

（Research methods for the arts and humanities / general editor, Gabriele Griffin）

Edinburgh University Press, c2009

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book addresses one of the most exciting and innovative developments within higher education: the rise in prominence of the creative arts and the accelerating recognition that creative practice is a form of research. The book considers how creative practice can lead to research insights through what is often known as practice-led research. But unlike other books on practice-led research, it balances this with discussion of how research can impact positively on creative practice through research-led practice. The editors posit an iterative and web-like relationship between practice and research. Essays within the book cover a wide range of disciplines including creative writing, dance, music, theatre, film and new media, and the contributors are from the UK, US, Canada and Australia. The subject is approached from numerous angles: the authors discuss methodologies of practice-led research and research-led practice, their own creative work as a form of research, research training for creative practitioners, and the politics and histories of practice-led research and research-led practice within the university. The book will be invaluable for creative practitioners, researchers, students in the creative arts and university leaders. Key Features *The first book to document, conceptualise and analyse practice-led research in the creative arts and to balance it with research-led practice *Written by highly qualified academics and practitioners across the creative arts and sciences *Brings together empirical, cultural and creative approaches *Presents illuminating case histories of creative work and practice-led research

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Practice-led research, Research-led practice: towards the Iterative Cyclic Web, Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean
• Section I: Methodologies of Practice-led research and Research-led practice
• 2. Making Space: The Purpose and Place of Practice-led Research, Graeme Sullivan
• 3. New Media: the 'First Word' in Art?, Simon Biggs
• 4. Knowledge Unspoken: Contemporary Dance and the Cycle of Practice-led Research, Basic and Applied Research, and Research-led Practice, Shirley McKechnie and Catherine Stevens
• 5. Practice as Research through Performance, Baz Kershaw
• 6. Beach combing: a fossicker's guide to whiteness and indigenous sovereignty, Anne Brewster
• Section II: Case Histories
• 7. Integrating Creative Practice and Research in the Digital Media Arts, Andrew R. Brown and Andrew Sorensen
• 8. Mariposa: The story of new work of research/creation, taking shape, taking flight, Kathleen Vaughan
• 9. Sustaining The Sustainable? Developing a practice and problem-led New Media Praxis, Keith Armstrong
• 10. Nightmares in the Engine Room, Jane Goodall
• Section III: Creative Practice and Research in Education and Politics
• 11. Acquiring Know-How: Research Training for Practice-led Researchers, Brad Haseman and Daniel Mafe
• 12. Asking questions of art: higher education, research and creative practice, Judith Mottram
• 13. The Academic Mode of Production, Sharon Bell
• Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB00988579
• ISBN:
  • 9780748636280
  • 9780748636297
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Edinburgh
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 278 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 700.72
  • LCC : NX280
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Arts -- Research
  • LCSH : Arts -- Practice
  • LCSH : Experiential research
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA75231097