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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"practice as research"”.
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Reconceptualizing creativity : creativity as embodied practice as research
… question of the role of the body in creativity has been widely debated in the field of creativity. The research explored the value, extent, and enaction of embodied cognition in creativity to reconceptualize how creativity can be engaged with and facilitated. It was a post hoc analysis of …
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Installation Art and Memory: A Practice-As-Research Exploration
This practice-as-research project investigates how a piece of site-responsive Installation Art, titled Triple Point Dunnage (exhibited in Royal William Yard, June 2009), can be used to generate knowledge about memory work through experience of site. Working in dialogue with the ideas of Daniel C. …
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Womanhood & the Body: An investigation of experience, community, and reclamation, through Practice as Research.
… arguments in relation to Feminism,<br/>through Practice as Research (PaR). Firstly, I propose a return to the<br/>body in Feminist theory as a way of reclaiming it from the violence of<br/>society and its participants – specifically from the societal violence of<br/>negative ‘body image’ and the …
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Critical computer animation: an examination of "practice as research" and its reflection and review processes.
My doctoral study investigated the “Practice as Research” model for critical 3D computer animation. I designed a structure for the model using mixed research methods and a critical process, and applied this proposed methodology first into a pilot study to examine some selected methods and identify …
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A Practice-as-Research Project utilizing Butler’s (1990) Feminist/ Post-structuralist theory of Gender Performativity, as well as Connells (2001) system of Hegemony, Complicity, and Subordination to Interrogate the Formation of Toxic Masculinities through Practice-as-Research and Live Art Methodologies
In the past twenty years or so, the concept of masculinity has come under increasing scrutiny. What used to constitute as socially acceptable behaviour for men to engage in, has increasingly become challenged by developments such as the MeToo movement. There are now stable grounds to argue that …
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Creating a spark: A practice-as-research project integrating science and theatre to arouse curiosity about the natural world
This document details a five-part research project inspired by the divide between the sciences and theatre. It begins with research into this divide, historical examples of connections between science and theatre, and strategies for reconnecting science and theatre. Next is the analysis of …
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10:31, MCR: a practice-as-research project that investigates ethical dramaturgical approaches to politically sensitive theatre-making with and for young people.
… the dramaturgical approaches for a practitioner-researcher making theatre with and for young people, retaining ethical care, when handling politically sensitive topics? Through the study of three practices chosen to advance the research (theatre and education approaches, dramaturgical processes …
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The artist interrogates violence: A Practice-as-research project considering the efficacy of different forms and styles of theatre through a portfolio approach which articulates and animates narratives of violence in private and public domains.
… into the symbiosis between violence as a matrixed systemic and individual act. My practice-as-research involves using the relationships founded in live performance to interrogate the interdependence of private and public displays of violence, generating an ‘archive of the …
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A journey back home through a mask for the 21st century : the legacy of Commedia dell'Arte in postdramatic theatre with particular focus on the centrality of the actor in devised performance : a practice-as-research PhD based on three years of research, culminating in this thesis, an ensemble devised performance A Floating Caravan Under the Moon (2015/16) and a solo piece Home/Finding Home (2017/18)
This study aims to cast new light on our understanding, interpretation and practical explorations of Commedia dell’Arte’s legacy and continuing relevance to contemporary performance. An original contribution to contemporary studies on the Commedia dell’Arte, this research highlights the striking …
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Reflections On Leaking Men And Abject Masculinities: Challenging Representations Of Male Identity In And Through Body-Based Performance Art
Towards the end of the last century discussions on the representation of masculinity in male body-based performance art placed emphasis on the deconstruction of normative masculine identities. The focus of these investigations tended to position the image of masculinity within Lacan’s sexuation …
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Data Sonification in Creative Practice
… with non-speech audio. While finding increasing acceptance as a scientific method, particularly where a visual representation of data is inadequate, it is still often derided as a ‘gimmick’. Composers have also shown growing interest in sonification as a compositional method. Both in …
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Come with Me
… of making a short 3D animation. Introducing the practice as a research method, I explored 3D animation production steps in a non-linear workflow. Each production step is then introduced along with the mind processes as Come with Me was developed from the story to the final animated scenes. The …
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The alignment of a manner of architectural practice and its architecture: rural houses in the north of Ireland by McGonigle McGrath architects
This research is concerned with the identification of the latent and unique contribution to knowledge embedded in the architectural practice of McGonigle McGrath Architects - Kieran McGonigle being the principal of that practice and the author of this thesis. <br/><br/>Architectural design evolves …
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Affective belongings and remediating practices: visualising Imperial formations and unlearning Whiteness in relation to British immigration in so-called Australia.
… This thesis consists of a written and practice element that together explore whiteness and photography, and the ways they create and sustain affective atmospheres of imperial duress in suburban Naarm (Melbourne). The origins of this enquiry lie in my family histories of immigration and …
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Postulating the Personal in Abstract Art through Poetry: The Development and Implementation of an Abstract Ekphrasis
Considering ekphrasis as poetry written in response to an existing work of art, my thesis, “Postulating the Personal in Abstract Art Through Poetry”, engages intimately with referent works such that my analysis and composition of poetry articulate an ‘abstract ekphrasis’. Both visual art and poetry …
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Chernobyl journey: process and subversion in woman’s self-reflexive animation
This research focuses on the correlation between women’s self-reflexive animation and subversion. I first observed this correlation in my own practice in making my long form mixed media documentary Chernobyl Journey, when I attempted to evade politically loaded popular narratives that I found …
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Towards a Cinema of Imperfection: Participatory Film as Research
This PhD is a practice as research interrogation of the emancipatory potential of the idea of imperfection. It is framed around the key leading question: ‘How can the generation of imperfect praxis – cultural production in and through social dialogues challenging notions of technical expertise – …
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Black Male Representations in Non-Urban Settings in The UK
Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s assertion ‘the Black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the White man’ (Fanon,1982:110) this research project analyses the ways in which representation has affected the performativity of Black masculinity in non-urban settings in the UK. Framed by a Practice …
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