Applied Practice: Evidence and Impact in Theatre, Music and Art
- Submitting institution
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York St John University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 154
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Methuen
- ISBN
- 9781474283830
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This collection is a unique contribution to the field that explores issues and challenges relating to evidence and impact across art forms. It does so through a curated process of discussion, sharing of models and critical evaluation. The research contribution of Matthew Reason therefore embraces both that of contributing author, but also that of research design through the role of editor and organisation of ‘Elusive Evidence’, a wider project that brought together contributors from across the United Kingdom, and guests from the United States, to engage in reflective dialogue on questions relating to evidence and impact in participatory arts practice.
The book represents a curatorial process to develop thinking and frameworks within this area across different performing arts disciplines (theatre, music, fine art) and different contexts (including education, health, community and criminal justice).
This curatorial process is further evidenced by a significant proportion of the volume being authored, with Reason framing discourses around evidence and impact across four chapters. Chapter One (co-authored Reason and Rowe) maps tensions between the need to articulate clear outcomes and the sense that applied practice works obliquely, producing immersive rather than directed impact. Chapter Two (author Reason) proposes that the major purpose of impact evaluation in applied practice is less about evidence that about persuasion. Chapter Three (author Reason) maps the history of debates between intrinsic and instrumental impacts of art, before seeking to reassert the value of aesthetic affects in applied practice. Chapter Four (co-authored Reason and Rowe) explores how forms of participatory knowing align in both ethical and evidential terms with participatory arts.
As a whole this book therefore forms a coherent research output, bringing together individual and collaborative research activities, including research, writing, curating material and developing the field as a whole.
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