Arts-Based Research & Creative Practice as Inquiry
Aesthetic Knowing, Performative Inquiry & Practice-Led Methodologies
Explores artistic research (ABR), performative epistemologies, visual culture analysis, and how creative arts (theatre, music, fine arts, digital media) generate distinct experiential and tacit knowledge.
1. Foundational Concepts & Core Principles
Origins and epistemological legitimacy of Arts-Based Research (ABR)
Rigorous academic inquiry requires precise delimitation of this principle to ensure internal consistency, falsifiability, and methodological replicability.
Practice-as-Research (PaR) versus Practice-Led Research in visual and performing arts
Rigorous academic inquiry requires precise delimitation of this principle to ensure internal consistency, falsifiability, and methodological replicability.
Artistic knowing: sensory perception, affect, embodiment, and tacit cognition
Rigorous academic inquiry requires precise delimitation of this principle to ensure internal consistency, falsifiability, and methodological replicability.
Documentation protocols for creative processes: sketchbooks, rehearsal logs, performance captures
Rigorous academic inquiry requires precise delimitation of this principle to ensure internal consistency, falsifiability, and methodological replicability.
Evaluation criteria for artistic research: resonance, aesthetic rigour, and transformative insight
Rigorous academic inquiry requires precise delimitation of this principle to ensure internal consistency, falsifiability, and methodological replicability.
2. Methodological Comparison & Trade-offs
Research where the creative artifact leads to new operational or theoretical understandings.
The creative practice is itself the primary investigative method and outcome.
Critical, historical, or textual commentary on existing artistic works.
3. Practical Guidelines & Common Methodological Pitfalls
- Explicitly state operational definitions before measurement.
- Acknowledge potential confounders and data limitations in the methodology section.
- Pre-register hypothesis and statistical tests when conducting quantitative trials.
- Provide full provenance for historical, epigraphical, and archival texts.
- Confusing statistical correlation with causal determination.
- Using non-probability convenience samples to claim population generalizations.
- Failing to report negative results or unexpected anomalies.
- Relying on unverified secondary citations without reading the primary source.