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Practice-as-Research
In Performance and Screen
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Practice-as-Research: In Performance and Screen presents a thoroughgoing exploration of the major fissures of established knowledge created by a new trans-disciplinary, worldwide project for the twenty-first century. Focussing on the most fleeting and yet pervasive practices of the performance and screen arts, it both documents and analyses the practical-theoretical integration of hands-on creative and scholarly methods of research. Through an innovative combination of manuscript, catalogue and digital multi-media formats, it aims to embody the principles of performance and screen practice-as-research in its structure and design – making book pages and DVD images mutually illuminating. With over fifty practitioner-researcher contributors, Practice-as-Research constitutes the most comprehensive presentation of this sometimes controversial and frequently fresh way of doing things with an imaginative convergence of artistic and scholarly processes.
'This represents the first comprehensive attempt to lay down disciplinary and epistemological parameters for the field of Practice as Research. As such it is completely new, groundbreaking and important. More importantly, it is exceptionally well-conceived, carefully organized and thought-through.' - Dr Lynette Hunter, University of California, Davis, USA
'...this book promises to be the first major analysis of practice as research. I have no doubt that as such it will be both timely and useful. Practice as research is by now a familiar feature of the landscape of research into performance. Many academics around the world see themselves as engaged in it. But yet hitherto it has remained, I think, somewhat under-theorised, a bit too slippery. We need a full-on analysis in order to take us to the next stage.' - Professor Simon Shepherd, Central School of Speech and Drama, UK
How to use this Publication
Acknowledgements
Practice-as-Research: An Introduction; B.Kershaw
The Courage of Complementarity: Practice-as-Research as a Paradigm Shift in Performance Studies; S.Jones
Of Fevered Archives and the Quest for Total Documentation; A.Piccini& C.Rye
Making a Difference: Media Practice-as-Research, Creative Economies and Cultural Ecologies; J.Dovey
Collaborative Ethics in Practice-as-Research; C.Bannerman& C.McLaughlin
Digital Archives: Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose; B.Smith
Peer Review and Criteria: A Discussion; J.Adams, J.Bacon& L.Thynne
Modes of Practice-as-Research Knowledge and Their Place in the Academy; R.Nelson
Practice-as-Research in France 2008; L.Allegue& M.Costin
Transnet a Canadian-Based Case Study on Practice-as-Research, or Rethinking Dance in a Knowledge-Based Society; H.Daniel
Performance Research in Australia 1988-2007; A.Richards
Images
List of Colour Images
Catalogue
Bibliography
Index
List of Catalogue Contributors
DVD
The editors work across a range of disciplines and modes of research practice.
LUDIVINE ALLEGUE is an artist who worked as a Researcher on the Bristol-based PARIP project from 2005-06. She recently worked with Yvon Bonenfant and Julius Fujak on projects that explore transversality across performance, music and visual arts.
BAZ KERSHAW is Professor of Performance at University of Warwick, UK. He has over four decades experience as a director, devisor and writer in experimental, radical and ecological performance. He has published extensively on theatre and performance practice, theory and history and is currently working on a book on Performance Ecology.
SIMON JONES is Professor of Performance at University of Bristol, UK. Formed in 1990, Simon Jones' company Bodies in Flight makes performance work that has at its heart our contemporary, everyday experience of being caught between our physical and psychological selves. The company has a significant regional, national and international profile and has toured extensively.
ANGELA PICCINI is Lecturer in Screen Studies at University of Bristol, UK. She publishes on contemporary archaeologies and screen media practices (from factual television to documentary installation) and investigates place and materiality through video and installation.
Description
Practice-as-Research: In Performance and Screen presents a thoroughgoing exploration of the major fissures of established knowledge created by a new trans-disciplinary, worldwide project for the twenty-first century. Focussing on the most fleeting and yet pervasive practices of the performance and screen arts, it both documents and analyses the practical-theoretical integration of hands-on creative and scholarly methods of research. Through an innovative combination of manuscript, catalogue and digital multi-media formats, it aims to embody the principles of performance and screen practice-as-research in its structure and design – making book pages and DVD images mutually illuminating. With over fifty practitioner-researcher contributors, Practice-as-Research constitutes the most comprehensive presentation of this sometimes controversial and frequently fresh way of doing things with an imaginative convergence of artistic and scholarly processes.
Reviews
'This represents the first comprehensive attempt to lay down disciplinary and epistemological parameters for the field of Practice as Research. As such it is completely new, groundbreaking and important. More importantly, it is exceptionally well-conceived, carefully organized and thought-through.' - Dr Lynette Hunter, University of California, Davis, USA
'...this book promises to be the first major analysis of practice as research. I have no doubt that as such it will be both timely and useful. Practice as research is by now a familiar feature of the landscape of research into performance. Many academics around the world see themselves as engaged in it. But yet hitherto it has remained, I think, somewhat under-theorised, a bit too slippery. We need a full-on analysis in order to take us to the next stage.' - Professor Simon Shepherd, Central School of Speech and Drama, UK
Contents
How to use this Publication
Acknowledgements
Practice-as-Research: An Introduction; B.Kershaw
The Courage of Complementarity: Practice-as-Research as a Paradigm Shift in Performance Studies; S.Jones
Of Fevered Archives and the Quest for Total Documentation; A.Piccini& C.Rye
Making a Difference: Media Practice-as-Research, Creative Economies and Cultural Ecologies; J.Dovey
Collaborative Ethics in Practice-as-Research; C.Bannerman& C.McLaughlin
Digital Archives: Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose; B.Smith
Peer Review and Criteria: A Discussion; J.Adams, J.Bacon& L.Thynne
Modes of Practice-as-Research Knowledge and Their Place in the Academy; R.Nelson
Practice-as-Research in France 2008; L.Allegue& M.Costin
Transnet a Canadian-Based Case Study on Practice-as-Research, or Rethinking Dance in a Knowledge-Based Society; H.Daniel
Performance Research in Australia 1988-2007; A.Richards
Images
List of Colour Images
Catalogue
Bibliography
Index
List of Catalogue Contributors
DVD
Authors
The editors work across a range of disciplines and modes of research practice.
LUDIVINE ALLEGUE is an artist who worked as a Researcher on the Bristol-based PARIP project from 2005-06. She recently worked with Yvon Bonenfant and Julius Fujak on projects that explore transversality across performance, music and visual arts.
BAZ KERSHAW is Professor of Performance at University of Warwick, UK. He has over four decades experience as a director, devisor and writer in experimental, radical and ecological performance. He has published extensively on theatre and performance practice, theory and history and is currently working on a book on Performance Ecology.
SIMON JONES is Professor of Performance at University of Bristol, UK. Formed in 1990, Simon Jones' company Bodies in Flight makes performance work that has at its heart our contemporary, everyday experience of being caught between our physical and psychological selves. The company has a significant regional, national and international profile and has toured extensively.
ANGELA PICCINI is Lecturer in Screen Studies at University of Bristol, UK. She publishes on contemporary archaeologies and screen media practices (from factual television to documentary installation) and investigates place and materiality through video and installation.
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