Synopses & Reviews
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, researchers, students in the creative arts and university leaders.
Synopsis
The Conflict of the Faculties looks at the emerging field of artistic research as a place of crossover between the artistic and academic worlds. Henk Borgdorff carefully examines how artistic research broadens and deepens traditional academic approaches to studying art, while observing the tension between the two disparate fields in terms of methods and practices.“Well-written and well-argued, this book will probably become a reference for many studies to come and required reading for anyone active in this domain.”—Frans-Willem Korsten, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University, the Netherlands
About the Author
Henk Borgdorff is professor of research in the arts at the University of the Arts, the Hague, and visiting professor of aesthetics in the Faculty of Fine, Applied, and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements and Provenance of the Chapters
Introduction
1. The Conflict of the Faculties
2. The Debate on Research in the Arts
3. Artistic Research and Academia: An Uneasy Relationship
4. Artistic Research within the Fields of Science
5. Where Are We Today? The State of the Art in Artistic Research
6. Artistic Research as Boundary Work
7. The Production of Knowledge in Artistic Research
8. Boundary Work: An Interview
9. Artistic Practices and Epistemic Things
10. Ingredients for the Assessment of Artistic Research
11. The Case of the Journal for Artistic Research
Bibliography
Index