Practice makes Perfect
Theorising Method in Visual Research
Swansea
Metropolitan University Sept 6th & 7th 2012
Key note
speaker confirmed; Dr Jac Saorsa
Dr Jac Saorsa is a visual artist,
writer and researcher in art practice and philosophy. She has exhibited
her work and lectured internationally and is currently Programme
Director of the MA/MFA Fine Art at Cardiff Metropolitan University
School of Art and Design where she lectures in the theory and practice
of drawing. Recent publications include her second book; Narrating the
Catastrophe: an artist’s dialogue with Deleuze and Ricoeur, 2011,
Intellect Books.
Second Call for Papers
The topic of
methodology, while fundamental to academic research, remains unresolved
and
contentious within the field of art and design. Other fields of
qualitative research, such as the humanities and social sciences, have
adapted methodological frameworks that have their
origins in the hard
sciences to the point where they can take full ownership of completely
new research paradigms that are fit for purpose.
Art and design
remains at a relatively early stage in this process, and the debate
takes place within an atmosphere of some institutional prejudice
regarding the validity of practice as research. It is therefore
essential that as artists and designers we articulate and theorise our
own methodological frameworks in ways that are comprehensible and
recognisable to other members of the academy. This will ensure the
validity of academic research in art and design and empower and enable
students, supervisors and examiners.
This two-day symposium
brings together post-graduate, post-doctoral and independent
researchers
to present and debate the issue of methodology in practice-based and
practice-led
research. This is an opportunity to theorise methods
within a methodological framework in
order to generate dialogues and
synthesise potential models that move the debate forward. To
contribute
to this we hope to publish papers from the symposium in a peer-reviewed
publication.
Presentations may take the form of 15 minute solo
papers, 5 minute poster presentations,
or 20 minute
student/supervisor collaborations where supervisors provide a
methodological
contextualisation of the student’s practice.
Submissions are invited which do one or more of
the following:
•
Expand on and make rigorous links between method and methodology in art
and design
• Give examples of adaptations/hybridisations of
research methods/methodology from other disciplines or paradigms
•
Demonstrate the methodological differences between practice-based and
practice-led research
• Provide examples of language and
terminologies for describing, explaining and/or justifying practice as
research
• Show how visual practice relates to other research
methods as part of a practice-led research project
Please submit
300 words abstract proposals (200 words for posters) to
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For more information on the symposium and on
our keynote, Jac Sarosa, visit www.smu.ac.uk/practicemakesperfect
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