Table of Contents

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
Chapter 11 Rupture and Recognition: Identifying The Performative Research Paradigm -Brad Haseman
Chapter 12 The Exegesis as Meme - Estelle Barrett
Notes
References
Contributors
Appendix

Promotional Information

Designed as a training tool, this book provides examples of studio-based research in art, film and video, creative writing and dance, and examines the relationship between practice and theory, demonstrating how practice can operate as a valid alternative mode of enquiry to traditional scholarship.

About the Author

Estelle Barrett is Associate Professor and Honours Convenor in the School of Communications and Creative Arts at Deakin University, where she teaches Art Theory & Media & Communication. Barbara Bolt is Senior Lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts Graduate School, University of Melbourne. she is the author of 'Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image' (IBT, 2004). Both have forthcoming books in the Contemporary Thinkers Reframed series (IB Tauris), Estelle Barrett: 'Kristeva Reframed' and Barbara Bolt: 'Heidegger Reframed'.