Practice as Research in the Arts (and Beyond): Principles, Processes, Contexts, Achievements

by Robin Nelson

This project addresses the contexts of Practice as Research and how to undertake it. This second iteration updates thinking and practices but sustains a direct and clear approach on how to become a practitioner-researcher. New features include an extension of range “beyond” the arts and a case for intra-disciplinarity in Practice Research as an influence in the formation of the “future university”. A comparison is made between Artistic Research and Practice Research recognizing that research through practices with being-doing-knowing is central to both. Acknowledging the current crisis in legitimation, a broad view is taken of how things might be known by an onto-epistemology for the twenty-first century foregrounding the bodymind but sustaining rationality and community by way of Other/other dialogic exchange. Perspectives from around the world in Part II offset the more Eurocentric emphasis in Part I.

173 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 19, 2022

Reviews

[Say Mayfire · Rating 3 out of 5]

seemed to read more for a professor than a student or independent researcher, though the content is interesting and informative. The spiral of academia seems imminent in ways where PaR itself is a thing to be researched, i.e. researching research methods. To me, this book explored PaR much more as a thing to be defined rather than a thing that is continually happening.

[Bethany Webb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another doctoral read