PARIP 2005

International Conference | 29 June - 03 July 2005

Macklin: Simon | UK

The Methodological Variations from Practice-based to Practice-as-Research

This paper investigates the methodological variation between Research-into-Practice, Practice-based Research and Practice-as-Research and explores the site of “artistic practice” as a tool for understanding the different underlying epistemologies in these different forms of “artistic practice inclusive research”.

This paper contains three sections – positing definitions of different forms of “artistic practice inclusive research” based on the site of the artistic practice; positing the epistemological differences flowing from the site of artistic practice and its impact on the form of “artistic practice inclusive research”, and then investigating methodologies flowing from the epistemological forms created from differing sites of artistic practice. 

The weight of the paper is within the methodologies flowing from the epistemologies created through differing sites of artistic practice.  It will investigate the notional development of non-static knowledge stabilisation looking afield for techniques from Critical Discourse Analysis, Narrative Analysis, and Historiography.  These methodological investigations for Practice-as-Research will focus on the stabilisation of knowledge systems, it will also investigate the notion of mastery as imperative to the development of systematic Practice-as-Research methodologies. 

Disseminations: This work will be a expository, discursive writing-based conference paper, which seeks to disseminate its finding through stimulating academic debate.

Articulations: This paper looks at epistemological clarfication of differing forms of artistic practice inclusive research and develops a set of simple methodological guides for choosing methodologies based on appropriate sites of artistic practice.

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