Critiques of practice led research
Higher degree research in the creative arts over the last twenty years has overwhelmingly taken the bifurcated form of 1) an artwork produced in relation to a given problem plus 2) an accompanying essay describing the research gains made while producing that work. Yet critiques of ‘practice-led’ or ‘practice-based’ research, as the bifurcated approach is variously called, have been trenchant and numerous (see, among the most cogent: Candlin 2000, Scrivener 2002, Biggs and Büchler 2007, 2011, Brook 2010).
Paul Magee
Paul Magee is the author of Cube Root of Book (John Leonard Press 2006), which was shortlisted for the Innovation category of the Adelaide Festival Awards for the Arts in 2008, and also of From here to Tierra del Fuego, a work of surrealist ethnography published by the University of Illinois Press in 2000. He is Associate Professor at the University of Canberra, where he established the University’s celebrated Honours in Creative Communication programme and runs the Art and Other Questions public seminar series.