Beyond Borders

Articulations, Provocations and Performativities in Arts Research
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-84417-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Beyond Borders challenges the conventional boundaries of art(s) research, offering a disruptive exploration of its multidimensional terrain. This groundbreaking edited collection brings together international contributions, inviting readers to engage performatively with its provocations and articulations.

This edited collection offers a diverse array of contributions that challenge conventional thinking about art(s) research. From performance-texts to visual essays, each piece provides a fresh perspective, encouraging readers to question preconceived notions and explore new avenues of inquiry. In doing so, it presents a topological approach to understanding art(s) research, emphasizing its complexity and interconnectedness. By traversing methodologies, epistemologies, and identities, readers gain a deeper appreciation for the dynamic nature of the field and its potential for innovation, goes beyond traditional academic writing, embracing a variety of formats to convey its ideas. Through innovative approaches such as graphic exposition and provocations, the book demonstrates how different modes of articulation can expand the boundaries of scholarly discourse and foster creativity.

This book is essential for scholars, practitioners, and students across disciplines interested in pushing the boundaries of academic inquiry. It is particularly valuable for those engaging with alternative modalities of research and seeking to challenge dominant power structures within academia.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Jacqueline

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue by Michael Schwab. Preamble by Jacqueline Taylor. Enact I: De/Constructing Spaces and Re/Locating Borders. Chapter 1: A Space of Exchange: Exploring mess, failure and play as method by Sally Bailey. Chapter 2: Weaving/writing/thinking: Visualising research and methodology as al-Sadu by Khulod Al-Bugami. Chapter 3: A Field of Possibilities by Jane Bennet, Belinda Mitchell and Yonat Nitzan-Green. Chapter 4: Performing Para-Dox: Gestures of (non)representation by Jacqueline Taylor. Interlude: The Appearance of the More by Emma Cocker and Nicole Wendel. Redact II: In-between-ness and the (Blurred) Edges of the Discipline. Chapter 5: In-between the Auditory and the Visual: Transposition in painting-based-research-practice by Harriet Carter. Chapter 6: The Performance Philosophy dRAFT of the Con-temporary by Sylvia Solakidi. Chapter 7: Generative Porosities of Sound/Image/Body/Text by Ana Gabrielle Rutter. Chapter 8: Slippage(s): Mess, in-between-ness and other spaces in art(s) research by Jacqueline Taylor. Interlude: The Overcoat: On refusal in academia by Maria Fusco. Diffract III: The Boundaries of Academia and the Academic. Chapter 9: Ill-Disciplined: Creative, neurodivergent intervention and leadership in Higher Education—A manifesto by Kai Syng Tan. Chapter 10: Beyond Practice & Back Again: Maintaining artistic identity in academia by Lorraine Smith. Chapter 11: Transdisciplinary Research Practices as Praxis by Don Parker. Epilogue by Jacqueline Taylor. Researching that one 'big region of strangeness' that makes us human by Brad Haseman.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Jacqueline Taylor is an artist, researcher, writer and educator. She is currently co-director of the Material Encounters research cluster (Birmingham Institute of Creative Arts) and Director of Doctoral Education (Faculty of Arts, Design and Media) at Birmingham City University, UK. Jacqueline has over a decade of leadership experience in researcher education including as a PhD supervisor, examiner and invited teaching and consultancy around the world, where she specialises in art research and methodologies. She exhibits her art practice internationally, and presents and performs her research globally, often in alternative ‘hybrid’ academic forms which expand the parameters of the written text. Jacqueline has been invited to give keynote and plenary talks at high profile events such as ‘Doing the Doctorate Differently - Creative Methodologies/Pedagogies’ (UK Council for Graduate Education, 2018). She has published extensively on doctoral education and her parallel research interest on language and art, most recently with the chapter ‘Painterly Poetics and Difference in the Making’ due to be published in Topologies of Sexual Difference with SUNY Press in early 2024.