Artistic Research in Performance through Collaboration

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Critical Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: Defining the Territory: Collaborative Processes, Issues and Concepts

      • Martin Blain, Helen Julia Minors

      Pages 3-10

   3. The Place of Artistic Research in Higher Education

      • Martin Blain, Helen Julia Minors

      Pages 11-36

3. Collaborative Demonstrations in Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Why Collaborate? Critical Reflections on Collaboration in Artistic Research in Classical Music Performance

      • Mine Doğantan-Dack

      Pages 39-57

   3. The Aesthetics of Artistic Collaboration

      • Andy Hamilton

      Pages 59-74

   4. In the Bee Hive: Valuing Craft in the Creative Industries

      • Alice Kettle, Helen Felcey, Amanda Ravetz

      Pages 75-93

   5. The Right Thing to Play? Issues of Riff, Groove and Theme in Freely Improvised Ensemble Music: A Case Study

      • Adam Fairhall

      Pages 95-112

   6. Soundpainting: A Tool for Collaborating During Performance

      • Helen Julia Minors

      Pages 113-138

   7. Collaboration and the Practitioner-Researcher: A Composer’s Perspective

      • Tom Armstrong

      Pages 139-164

   8. Creative Industries and Copyright: Research into Collaborative Artistic Practices in Dance

      • Mathilde Pavis, Karen Wood

      Pages 165-184

   9. Romance and Contagion: Notes on a Conversation Between Drawing and Dance

      • Sally Morfill

      Pages 185-204

   10. The Good, The God and The Guillotine: Insider/Outsider Perspectives

       • Martin Blain, Jane Turner

       Pages 205-228

   11. Connecting Silos: Examples of Arts Organisation and HEI Collaborations at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology

       • Roger McKinley, Mark Wright

       Pages 229-249

4. Back Matter

   Pages 251-270

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This volume explores the issue of collaboration: an issue at the centre of Performance Arts Research. It is explored here through the different practices in music, dance, drama, fine art, installation art, digital media or other performance arts. Collaborative processes are seen to develop as it occurs between academic researchers in the creative arts and professional practitioners in commercial organisations in the creative arts industries (and beyond), as well as focusing attention and understanding on the tacit/implicit dimensions of working across different media.  







                         

• performativity
• performance arts research
• collaborative research
• collaboration
• practice as research
• creative arts
• cultural industries

“This is a wide-ranging and practically useful contribution to the existing literature on artistic research, and it is welcome to see researchers putting collaborative research under the spotlight, rather than uncritically embracing it as a universally good thing. As well as manifold opportunities, there are challenges, limitations, and risks of undertaking collaborative practice, which the essays gathered in this book do well to address.” (Jacob Thompson-Bell, Leonardo, leonardo.info, August, 2022)

• Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK

  Martin Blain

• Kingston University, London, UK

  Helen Julia Minors

Martin Blain is a Reader in Music Composition at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a composer and performer and collaborator on the project The Good, The God and The Guillotine. He has published on collaboration, ‘liveness’ in performance, and Practice as Research in a variety of journals and book publications.




Helen Julia Minors is School Head of Performing Arts and Associate Professor of Music at Kingston University, London, UK. She has published books including Music, Text and Translation (2012) and Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician (2019), co-edited with Laura Watson. She has recently contributed chapters to The International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research (2016) and Translation and Multimodality: Beyond Words (2019)



        

                                       
  

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