The Creative Critic and Selected Writings
- Submitting institution
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Roehampton University
: B - Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - Drama
- Output identifier
- 3294949
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output comprises an interrelated set of works evidencing different dimensions of my practice of creative-critical writing; a practice that distinguishes itself from literary or fictional writing, as a method that treats the form of research expression as constitutive of its conceptual argument. Each piece, co-written between 2015 and 2018, examines my position as a practitioner-researcher working within the Academy and explores rigorous theoretical speculation in close affinity with the creative drives that animate my work as a performance and visual artist. The two chapters, journal article and the introduction to the edited collection consist of dialogues with one or two fellow practitioners (Hilevaara, Skantze and Finer), foregrounding the site of encounter, both with the artwork but also with the other. By using the inherently relational device of writing to and/or with someone else, I simultaneously enact and argue for being beside (as opposed to beneath or behind) as a generative way of engaging in critical practice. By interacting with an interlocutor and/or artwork as both artist and critic, I am able to challenge traditional hierarchical and dualistic epistemologies and celebrate making and thinking equally finding a communal practice of receptivity. The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice collection (Routledge, 2018), which I co-edited with Hilevaara, can be seen as the summative output of this submission. We gathered over thirty-five creative-critical writings by contemporary practitioner-researchers working in the fields of performance and visual art, to serve as examples for fellow academics wishing to challenge the false binaries that separate practice and theory, making and writing about making. Since publication, Hilevaara and I have given talks and workshops on the book at five UK Universities and the Research Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale (see contextual information).
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