[-empyre-] Practice in Research

[Phi Shu]

@Anne-Sarah

they justified the removal of that and other critical/questioning content
in terms of it not "adding to knowledge," it was an expression of
subjective experience, so was irrelevant to the concerns of the PhD thesis.
They were also, for the most part, less than enthused about ideas such as:

...Danykin (2004:6) cites Marcus (1998) in suggesting the use of “messy
texts” as a means of avoiding “a suggestion of linearity and coherence
where these may not exist”. Such a text can “engage with multiple meanings,
conveying the whole without invoking totality. [It can] resist the
dominance of the researcher, recognising that work is incomplete without
readers' responses...”

 “...poststructuralism suggests two important ideas to qualitative writers.
First, it directs us to understand ourselves reflexivity as persons writing
from particular positions at specific times. Second, it frees us from
trying to write a single text in which everything is said at once to
everyone. Nurturing our own voices releases the censorious hold of “science
writing” on our consciousness as well as the arrogance it fosters in our
psyche; writing is validated as a method of knowing.” Richardson (2000:962)

 “...research within the creative arts suffers from an inferiority complex
in relation to other established academic areas of knowledge. That
inferiority complex is not the result of a less valuable knowledge or the
novelty of creative arts research but the result of a constant need to
justify that research/practice through aims, methods and outcomes that are
external to the creative arts.” Santos in Biggs (2009:79).

"The apprehension of musical content and structure is linked to the world
of experience outside the composition, not only to the wider context of
auditory experience but also to non-sounding experience. Approached from
the multiple perspectives of life outside music, the materials and
structure of a musical composition become the meeting-place of sounding and
non-sounding experience.” (Smalley 1996:83)

I tend to agree with Simon's last statement re:practice based
PhD candidates:

"It's debatable whether...critical enhancement would have happened if they
didn't do the PhD...If the candidate doesn't wish to work in such a
critical and contextualised manner then a PhD is probably not the right
solution for them."

But, for some, critical enhancement can be a bit of a curse.

PS



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> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Practice in Research & odd methods, rude mechanics
>
> Hi all !
>
> I am bit drown in english so excuse me if I don't take part more often.
>
> Phi Shu, about your fore last paragraph (before the note) you write 'I was
> asked to remove it for the final version'.
> It is incredible !!! How did they justify their request ?
>
> About the struggle to keep on doing art while being an academic :
> I want to testify that the 2 other practice-based phd persons (in 3D
> artworks) that I know and that got a position are not doing so much and so
> good art as before. But they are much 'higher' in the hierarchy than I am.
> I was surprised to hear them both tell me that I do the right
> thing/choice... ! (developing and protecting the creation practice.) Can't
> they resist to the desire of being recognised as 'good' academic ?
>
> ... research as justification (for an academic-artist) I am not sure I
> write
> on my creation process to 'justify' it. For me it is a deep matter of
> understanding it. I write because I don't understand it through and through
> (if it is possible). And I try to question and understand the creation
> process altered by programming language.
> I put more the emphasize on the genesis of ideas, description and links
> between elements than on the interpretation(s) of the piece itself. I guess
> I feel it is not the core topic I have to deal from my position. (and
> probably, according to this meaning desire I have just mentioned, it is the
> easiest to analyse -from my position).
>
> au plaisir !
>
> Anne-Sarah
>
>
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