Creative Arts Research: Narratives of Methodologies and Practices (Educational Futures, Rethinking Theory and Practice, 35)

Scope This series maps the emergent field of educational futures. It will commission books on the futures of education in relation to the question of globalisation and knowledge economy. It seeks authors who can demonstrate their understanding of discourses of the knowledge and learning economies. It aspires to build a consistent approach to educational futures in terms of traditional methods, including scenario planning and foresight, as well as imaginative narratives, and it will examine examples of futures research in education, pedagogical experiments, new The individual essays that follow pick up on a number of themes: gathering as a way of framing the project (Grierson and Brearley); becoming a creative subject (Grierson); relations between Indigenous and Western knowledge systems (Brearley and Hamm); sustainable research design (Duxbury); the researcher's involvement with her work (Barnacle); the relation of art and text (Jones); writing the screenplay (Dethridge); forms of design research (Downton); performing and performativity (Grierson, Barrow, Horn); deconstruction of creative arts research discourses (Grierson); learning from creative research (Grierson and Brearley). This is both a substantial and innovative set of essays that grows out of active engagement with arts practice, pedagogy and research throwing new light on a range of issues that bring artists, designers, and performers into conversation with one another.This collection is authentic, it speaks to the reader, it raises many questions and it theorises methodologies and practices of creative arts research in ways that the art student, the teacher, the practitioner, and the lecturer will find both philosophical, interesting and methodologically insightful. The collection is to be welcomed as breaking new ground and it will have a deserved readership beyond the confines of the academic art-based community. REFERENCES Creative Arts Research: Narratives of Methodologies and Practices is an innovative set of essays that grows out of active engagement with arts practice, pedagogy and research. The collection presents a selection of arts-based research projects, their methodologies, practices and guiding philosophies, and throws new light on a range of issues that bring artists, designers, and performers into conversation with one another. The collection weaves together theoretical and applied dimensions of creative arts research. Following Martin Heidegger, the lead authors, Elizabeth Grierson and Laura Brearley situate the text through consideration of ways of framing, knowing and being, looking and listening, analysing, being-with, proposing, acting and reflecting, constructing, performing, deconstructing, and learning. Heidegger's notion of "gathering" and his proposition, "Questioning builds a way. . . the way is one of thinking" provides the means to link the different chapters. This wide-ranging metaphoric device allows the authors to emphasise a set of fundamental questions concerning epistemologies, ways of knowing, and ontologies, ways of being, and the relations between the two. Their book opens a conceptual space to recognise the diversity of practices that count as creative arts research Creative Arts Research: Narratives of Methodologies and Practices 3 CONTENTS 5 FOREWORD 7 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 9 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 13 1. WAYS OF FRAMING Introducing Creative Arts Research 15 2. WAYS OF KNOWING AND BEING Navigating the Conditions of Knowledge and Becoming a Creative Subject 31 3. WAYS OF LOOKING AND LISTENING Stories from the Spaces Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Knowledge Systems 47 4. WAYS OF ANALYSING From Reverie to Reality 69 5. WAYS OF BEING-WITH Finding a Way to be with the Work 79 6. WAYS OF PROPOSING Art as Proposition: From the Darwin Translations 89 7. WAYS OF ACTING AND REFLECTING Researching and Writing the Screenplay 111 8. WAYS OF CONSTRUCTING Epistemic, Temporal and Productive Aspects of Design Research 125 9. WAYS OF PERFORMING Perspectives on Performance and Performativity 143 10. WAYS OF DECONSTRUCTING Risks, Imagination and Reflexivity 163 11. WAYS OF LEARNING FROM CREATIVE RESEARCH A Postscript 179 INDEX 189 Heidegger's notion of "gathering" and his proposition, "Questioning builds a way ... the way is one of thinking" provides the means to link the different chapters. This wide-ranging metaphoric device allows the authors to emphasise a set of fundamental questions concerning epistemologies, ways of knowing, and ontologies, ways of being, and the relations between the two. Their book opens a conceptual space to recognise the diversity of practices that count as creative arts research. "This collection is authentic, it speaks to the reader, it raises many questions and it theorises methodologies and practices of creative arts research in ways that the art student, the teacher, the practitioner, and the lecturer will find philosophical, interesting and methodologically insightful. The collection is to be welcomed as breaking new ground and it will have a deserved readership beyond the confines of the academic art-based community." Michael A. Peters