Knowings and Knots

Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation

Natalie Loveless, Natalie Loveless

• Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781772125047
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

Knowings and Knots presents a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the methodology of research-creation and asks how those who make knowledge think about and value it. Not just a method but a site of ongoing experimentation around what counts as knowledge, research-creation is a meeting place of academia, artistic creation, and the wider public. The contributors argue that academic institutions and funders must recognize research-creation as innovative knowledge-making that leaps over the traditional splitting of theory from practice while considering how gender/feminist studies, Indigenous practices, and new materialism might inform and develop the conversation. Through this book, readers can transform the way they experience both art and education. Contributors: Carolina Cambre, Owen Chapman, Paul Couillard, T.L. Cowan, John Cussans, Randy Lee Cutler, Petra Hroch, Rachelle Viader Knowles, Natalie Loveless, Glen Lowry, Erin Manning, Sourayan Mookerjea, Natasha Myers, Simon Pope, Stephanie Springgay, Sarah E. Truman

Index

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF), 166, 169–71

Aboriginal peoples. See Indigenous peoples

ACAD (Alberta College of Art and Design, now Alberta University of the Arts), 179, 181-82, 189n18

Academic Instincts (Garber), 241

academy and research-creation

about, 161–65

Canada Research Chairs, 302

curricula, 175

disciplines, creative practices vs. scholarly texts, 163–65, 230–31

evaluation, 243–44, 246–47

hierarchies of knowledge, 63–64, 70–71, 200–01

hiring and tenure, 162, 175, 184, 204

Indigenous students, 273–74

proto-political and -philosophical, 216, 246

research questions on, 301

slow processes, 213, 216–17, 219, 296

social sculptural practice, 301

spatial turn, 171–74

text-based works, xxiv–xxv, 69–71, 163, 262

validation of knowledge, 63–64, 70

See also academic degrees; art and design universities; citation of works; funding systems; funding systems, recipients; interdisciplinary works; intermedia research-creation; pedagogy; research-creation; research-creation, concepts, categories and definitions

academy in the neoliberal economy

auditing cultures, 175–76, 295–96

corporate partnerships, 181

Florida’s creative class, 68

instrumentalization of knowledge, 68

managerialism, 288, 295–96

precarious employment, 253

resistance to, 184–85, 215–17, 225–26

student debt, 214–15

See also capitalism; funding systems; funding systems, recipients

academic degrees

about, xv–xxvi, 68–70, 162, 204, 247

Busch’s categories of artistic research, xxiii, 202–05, 229

Concordia U programs, xv–xviii, xxv, 247

degrees, master’s and doctoral, xvi–xviii, 68–70, 162, 196, 202–04, 207n17, 214–15

hiring and tenure, 68, 74n56, 162, 204, 214–15

Indigenous knowledge, 205

interdisciplinary studies, xvi–xv, 69–70, 203–04, 253

standards for theses, xvi–xvii, xxv

technical skills, 6...