Estelle Barrett is Associate Professor and Honours Convenor in the School of Communications and Creative Arts at Deakin University, where she teaches Art Theory & Media & Communication. Barbara Bolt is Senior Lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts Graduate School, University of Melbourne. she is the author of 'Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image' (IBT, 2004). Both have forthcoming books in the Contemporary Thinkers Reframed series (IB Tauris), Estelle Barrett: 'Kristeva Reframed' and Barbara Bolt: 'Heidegger Reframed'.

Structured on the model used by most research programmes

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsForewordIntroductionChapter 1 Interest: The Ethics of Invention - Paul CarterChapter 2 The Magic is in Handling - Barbara BoltChapter 3 History Documents, Arts Reveals: Creative Writing as Research - Gaylene PerryChapter 4 Cutting Choreography: Back and Forth Between 12 Stages and 27 Seconds - Dianne ReidChapter 5 "Silent" Speech - Annette IgguldenChapter 6 'Chamber': Experiencing Masculine Identity Through Dance Improvisation - Shaun McLeodChapter 7 Rhizome/MyZone: A Case Study in Studio-based Dance Research - Kim VincsChapter 8 A Correspondence Between Practices - Stephen GoddardChapter 9 Creating New Stories For Praxis: Navigations, Narrations, Neonarratives - Robyn StewartChapter 10 Foucault's 'What is An Author': Towards a Critical Discourse of Practice as Research - Estelle BarrettChapter 11 Rupture and Recognition: Identifying The Performative Research Paradigm -Brad HasemanChapter 12 The Exegesis as Meme - Estelle BarrettNotesReferencesContributorsAppendix

Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry is specifically designed as a training tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book's framework and individual chapters provide concrete examples of studio-based research in art, film and video, creative writing and dance. Comprehensive in its approach, the volume draws on thinkers including Deleuze, Bourdieu and Heidegger in its examination of the relationship between practice and theory demonstrating how practice can operate as a valid alternative mode of enquiry to traditional scholarship.