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Practice-as-Research, Art-based Research and Research/Creation
Titles recommended by Henry Daniel
Riley, S., & Hunter, L. (2009). Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies. [online] [print and online]
Nelson, R., & SpringerLink. (2013). Practice as research in the arts : Principles, protocols, pedagogies, resistances. [online] [online] different platforms
Borgdorff, H. (2012). The conflict of the faculties : Perspectives on artistic research and academia. [online] [print]
Biggs, Karlsson, Biggs, Michael, Karlsson, Henrik, & Riksbankens jubileumsfond. (2010). The Routledge companion to research in the arts. [print] [online]
Finding books about practice as research
Use the following formal subject headings to link to titles at SFU Library:
Performing arts Research Methodology
You can also search for articles and conference proceedings on these topics in the databases that relate to your practice or multidisciplinary databases, such as Google Scholar. Select your discipline (music, visual arts, dance, theatre, film) from the subject list on the database page.
Selected recent titles
General
Bell, D. (2019). Research in the creative and media arts : Challenging practice. [online]
Leavy, P. (2018). Handbook of arts-based research . [online and print]
May, S. (2015). Rethinking practice as research and the cognitive turn. [print]
Leavy, P. (2015). Method meets art : Arts-based research practice. [print]
McNiff, S. (2013). Art as research : Opportunities and challenges. [print]
Rolling, J. (2013). Arts-based research primer. [print]
Smith, Dean, Smith, Hazel, & Dean, R. T. (2009). Practice-led research, research-led practice in the creative arts. [print]
Leavy, P. (2009). Method meets art : Arts-based research practice. [online]
Allegue Fuschini, Jones, Kershaw, Piccini, Jones, Simon, Kershaw, Baz, & Piccini, Angela. (2009). Practice-as-research : In performance and screen. [print]
Visual arts
Hediger, I., & Scott, J. (2016). Recomposing art and science : Artists-in-labs. [online] [print]
Sinner, Conrad, Project Muse, Sinner, Anita, & Conrad, Diane. (2015). Creating Together : Participatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship across Canada. [online]
Daichendt, G. (2012). Artist scholar reflections on writing and research. [online] [print]
Wesseling, J. (2011). See it again, say it again : The artist as researcher. [print]
Sullivan, G. (2010). Art practice as research : Inquiry in visual arts. [print]
Gray, C., & Malins, J. (2004). Visualizing research : A guide to the research process in art and design. [print]
Visual arts research (1982-present) [online] NOTE: this journal contain articles which discuss research projects and practices.
Theatre and performance
Sindoni, M., Wildfeuer, J., & O'Halloran, K. (2017). Mapping multimodal performance studies. [print]
Arlander, Barton, Dreyer-Lude, Spatz, Arlander, Annette, Barton, Bruce, . . . Spatz, Ben. (2017). Performance as research : Knowledge, methods, impact. [print]
Scott, J. (2016). Intermedial Praxis and Practice as Research 'Doing-Thinking' in Practice. [online]
Spatz, B. (2015). What a body can do : Technique as knowledge, practice as research. [print]
Fischer-Lichte, Mosse, Arjomand, Mosse, Ramona, & Arjomand, Minou. (2014). The Routledge introduction to theatre and performance studies. [print]
Kershaw, B., & Nicholson, H. (2011). Research methods in theatre and performance. [online]
Freeman, J. (2010). Blood, sweat & theory : [research through practice in performance]. [print]
Film
Batty, Craig, & Kerrigan, Susan. (2018). Screen Production Research: Creative Practice as a Mode of Enquiry. [online]
Gómez Cruz, Edgar ; Sumartojo, Shanti ; Pink, Sarah. (2017). Refiguring Techniques in Digital Visual Research (Digital Ethnography). [online]
Dance
Quinten, Susanne, & Schroedter, Stephanie. (2018). Tanzpraxis in der Forschung – Tanz als Forschungspraxis (Tanzforschung). [online] German language text
Nichol, C., & Uytterhoeven, L. (2017). What moves you? : Shaping your dissertation in dance. [print]
Gehm, Husemann, Wilcke, Gehm, Sabine, Husemann, Pirkko, Wilcke, Katharina von, & Tanzkongress Deutschland. (2007). Knowledge in motion : Perspectives of artistic and scientific research in dance. [print]
Fraleigh, S., & Hanstein, P. (1999). Researching dance : Evolving modes of inquiry. [print]
Buckland, T. (1999). Dance in the field : Theory, methods and issues in dance ethnography. [print]
Music
Lee, S. (2017). Scholarly research for musicians. [print]
Burke, R., & Onsman, A. (2017). Perspectives on artistic research in music. [print]
Kapchan, D., & Project Muse. (2017). Theorizing sound writing. [online]
Crispin, Gilmore, Crispin, Darla, Gilmore, Bob, & Project Muse. (2014). Artistic experimentation in music : An anthology. [online]
Indigenous research methods
Archibald, Lee-Morgan, De Santolo, Smith, Archibald, Jo-Ann, Lee-Morgan, Jenny, & Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. (2019). Decolonizing research : Indigenous storywork as methodology. [print]
Restoule, J., McGregor, D., & Johnston, R. (2018). Indigenous research : Theories, practices, and relationships. [print]
Wilson, S. (2008). Research is ceremony : Indigenous research methods. [print]
Teaching and assessment of practice-based research in the academy
Butt, Danny. (2017). Artistic Research in the Future Academy. [online]
Butt, Danny. (2017). Artistic Research: Defining the Field. [online]
Bala, Sruti, Gluhovic, Milija, Korsberg, Hanna, & Röttger, Kati. (2017). International Performance Research Pedagogies: Towards an Unconditional Discipline? [online]
Nelson, R. (2013). Practice as Research in the Arts Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances. [online]
Knowles, J., Promislow, S., Cole, A., & Centre for Arts-Informed Research. (2008). Creating scholartistry : Imagining the arts-informed thesis or dissertation. [print]