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To write or not to write? The contested nature and role of writing in arts practice research
journal contribution
posted on 2019-04-30, 11:20 authored by Helen Frances Phelan, Mary NunanOne of the most contested areas of arts practice research concerns the nature
and role of writing. For many artist-scholars, research predicated on artistic
practice does not require written contextualization. For those who engage in
writing, questions as to the nature, mode, register, and purpose of writing
abound. The growing body of publications addressing this question
illustrates two broad responses. On the one hand, the ethnographic tradition
attempts to capture phenomenological aspects of the artistic and reflexive
experience. On the other, writing itself is approached as an integral part (a
generative strand) of an artist’s creative process. In this article, the
development of arts practice research at the Irish World Academy of Music
and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland is reviewed and it serves as a
point of departure to discuss an engagement with writing that invites a
dialogue between ethnographic and generative approaches, the balance of
which is ultimately decided by the research question, and the approach taken
to answer the question.
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Journal of Research Practice;14(2), M3Publisher
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