The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy; Challenges for Creative Practice Researchers in Higher Education; First Edition

The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy provides a deep understanding of the nuances of ethics in the creative environment and contributes to the critical exploration of the nature of research ethics in higher education. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 1. The meeting of aesthetics and ethics in the academy 10 Notes 19 References 20 2. Research ethics in the risk managed university 22 Ethics processes, risk management, and university governance 23 The research ‘project’ 25 Ethical projects as opposed to ethical actions 27 Research participants as risk categories 29 Conclusion 30 References 31 3. Ethics and the infrastructure of artistic research: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument 34 Infrastructure, institutional critique, and reflexive institutionalisation 36 Going private: neoliberal artistic subjectivity as infrastructure 39 Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument 41 Responsibility 42 Notes 44 References 45 4. Re-imagining conceptions of Indigenous youth: working toward an ethical scholarly engagement with textual and artistic representation 47 Locating ourselves in our work 48 An ethics of refusal 50 Knowledge within and beyond the academy 52 The university as asite of problematisation and regeneration 54 Afuture re-imagined 58 Conclusion 59 References 59 5. Stories of freedom: a reflexive account of collaboration and ethics in documentary filmmaking 62 Notes 75 References 76 Filmography 77 6. Negotiating uncertain agency: the ethics of artistic collaboration and research in the context of lived trauma 78 Creative research ethics: contexts and collaborative principles of the Parragirls Memory Project 80 Participatory research and institutional privilege 81 Learning from antagonisms of creative collaboration 82 Case study: It’s time for transparency 83 Beyond public consumption of victimhood: art, agency and autonomous identity 87 Self-representation, trauma and public identity 88 In parentheses: engaging with university ethics protocols for community-based participatory research 91 Note 94 References 94 7. What could possibly go wrong?: the role of supervisors in ethics training for creative practice researchers 96 The landscape of ethical conduct 98 The ethical position 101 The ethical dilemma 104 Towards ethical know-how 106 Conclusion 108 Note 108 References 109 8. Just tick the box: a Koorie woman’s experience of negotiating the university’s ethics process 110 Notes 116 References 117 9. The question(s), the material(s) and the ethics of creative practice research methodologies 119 Marina Abramović’s Lips of Thomas 119 Question(s) 122 Material(s) 125 An ethics of art and the artist 126 Note 128 References 128 10. Applying ethical standards when creative practice involves deception 130 Titled ‘Anon’ 131 Ethics protocols and ethical considerations 134 Applying ethical standards 139 Note 143 References 143 11. How ethical is a ball of string?: the embodied ethics of a creative practice bricoleuse 144 Abricoleuse 146 Creative practice research 148 Yarning as method 151 Ethical creative practice research 156 The end of this yarn 156 Notes 158 References 159 12. Beneficence and contemporary art: when aesthetic judgment meets ethical judgment 162 Acknowledgments 173 Notes 173 References 174 13. Touch and trace: ethical creative practices for a phenomenology of skin 176 Phenomenological bodies in aresearch context: Introducing aproject 176 Institutional human research ethics 178 The Dust Project: Ethical approaches for abject bodies 179 Conclusion 184 Notes 186 References 186 14. Journalism as a research methodology in the academic context: public interest, risk and beneficence 188 Public benefit and the national statement’s flexibility 192 Shared worldviews 195 Conclusion 199 References 200 15. Six troubling things: cultivating ethical know-how through creative practice research 202 Ethical know-how and methodological manner 203 The CREW intensive workshop 206 Enchantment and ethics as alived, aesthetic practice 209 The CREW platforms and six troubling things 212 Ethical wayfinding as alived practice 218 Notes 219 References 219 Index 221 The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy provides a deep understanding of the nuances of ethics in the creative environment and contributes to the critical exploration of the nature of research ethics in higher education. Written by world-renown academics with a wealth of experience in this field, this volume explores ethical challenges and responses across a range of creative practices and disciplines including design, documentary film making, journalism, socially engaged arts and the visual arts. It addresses the complex negotiations that creative practice researchers in higher education undertake to ensure that the ethical compliance required does not undermine the research integrity and artistic aspirations. By presenting carefully considered challenges to accepted models of research, this book illustrates critical analysis through a variety of case studies and anecdotal examples that provide an insight into improved ethics practices and policies in higher education. This book is perfect for academics, ethics administrators, higher degree research candidates and supervisors looking to engage further in creative practice research and wanting to explore and understand its ethical oversight.