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Showing 1 to 20 of 151 for “"practice-led research"”.
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Creative River Journeys: Using reflective practice to investigate creative practice-led research
… doctoral study explored the processes of art practice and knowledge-making by six artist–researchers engaged in creative higher degrees by research (HDR) at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in three arts disciplines—performing arts, visual arts, and creative writing. The study applied the Creative …
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Practice-Led Research into Music: a Synergetic Trifecta of Glissandi, Microtonality, and Isorhythms
The contribution to knowledge, and the core of the research, is a tonal foundation based on glissandi using compositional techniques derived from synergy of glissandi, microtonality, and isorhythm. The techniques are performed on specially constructed guitars in 18, 24, 30, and 36 tet (tone equal …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
This thesis is comprised of two parts: a Studio Research component with an accompanying Exegesis (66%), and a Dissertation (33%). The Dissertation presents the theoretical component of the research topic - Exact Fantasies: Practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
This thesis is comprised of two parts: a Studio Research component with an accompanying Exegesis (66%), and a Dissertation (33%). The Dissertation presents the theoretical component of the research topic - Exact Fantasies: Practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in …
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Grassroots Playwriting : Practice-led research exploring the Impact of Producing Historical Verse Drama for a local Community
Christ Savery<br/><br/>Grassroots Playwriting: Practice-led research exploring the Impact of Producing Historical Verse Drama for a local Community<br/><br/>Over the past thirty years, Practice as Research has contributed to a deeper understanding of theatre ecology, particularly in relation to the …
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Practice-led research into ways the museum is explored as a house of wonder in contemporary sculpture
… to engage and inspire some artists, and this research uncovers reasons for this. This research investigates the ways in which contemporary sculpture can employ museum aesthetics to draw attention to flexible and uncertain meaning regarding ecological issues. It is undertaken in two parts. The …
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It must be love: an exploration of the character arc model in screenwriting practice and theory.
This practice led research is a study into the contested screenwriting narrative form known as the ‘character arc’. The character arc is a term that refers to the motivational and emotional trajectory of a character through the totality of a given narrative. Through practice I developed an original …
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Digital Conditions and Post-Digital Potentials: an Exploration of Time and Matter in Hardware and Software
This practice-led research project in the field of Digital Art investigates concepts of time and matter in hardware and software, in order to challenge dominant conceptions of digital technologies and advance a more dynamic and transformative relationship between the two. It asks is it possible to …
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The making of Disgrace Kelly: Dragging the diva through cabarets, pubs and Into the recital hall
This research project investigates the synthesis of cabaret and recital performance as a way to re-invigorate the recital as a performance platform. As a curious classical singer with a passion for cabaret, I have explored cabaret in my own creative practice as a classically trained opera singer …
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Performing psychic: the performance of mentalism and psychic arts on stage, screen, and in everyday life
… energy healers. Despite the popularity of such practices, this booming performance-based industry aimed at entertainment and self-improvement has yet to be analysed in any depth within the field of Performance Studies where such performances have either been omitted entirely or conflated with …
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Abstract realism : Non-anthropocentric strategies for constructing non-relational artworks.
… towards developing a new material philosophy and practice led research methodology based upon a series of 'non-anthropocentric strategies' (following Fredric Jameson) for constructing, staging and encountering artworks as 'non-relational' (following Francois Laruelle) 'totalities' (following Carl …
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Investigating disorientation through the adoption of role-play in contemporary fine art practice
Through my programme of practice-led research I have used role-play as a vehicle for the exploration of identity and politics in a series of art works encompassing video, drawing and photography. This research discusses the highly spatialised ways of describing cultural identity, covering aspects …
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Craft-Focused Electronic Musical Instrument Building: Exploring DIY Textiles and Hybrid Craft Techniques in Sound Arts Practice
The aim of this practice-led research was to explore the concept of a craft focused electronic musical instrument building practice, prioritising textile handcraft materials, techniques and aesthetics in the process of creating new electronic musical instruments and sound artwork. A range of DIY …
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Equinoctial: an investigation of ‘the holographic’ for developing a new collection of ekphrastic poetry
Holography is a form of 3D imaging. Its practice spans the disciplines of science and art. My original contribution to knowledge is in making a claim for holography as a new context for writing ekphrastic poetry which most usually refers to poetry written in dialogue with the visual. The …
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Towards a performance of Scriabin's Sonata No. 6, Op. 62: a practice-led exploration
… would play in the spiritual future of society – led to experimentation with octatonic, whole-tone and bi-tonal harmonic and melodic patterns, most clearly demonstrated in the formation of the mystic chord. The extra-musical significance of these sonic explorations are related by Scriabin in the …
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Beyond the studio: the creative process in local, site-related dance
This practice–led research thesis comprises a dance performance and a written exegesis that will make salient and analyse the creative process in site-related choreography. The work explores the repercussions of moving dance making activities away from the traditional studio and considers how …
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Participation as media: a compositional system for staging participation with reflective scenography
The practice-led research develops a compositional system for staging participation within reflective scenographies, and suggests an artistic concept of 'participation as media', which propose the participatory involvement as compositional material in itself. The research takes a starting point in …
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Towards the haptic encounter: investigating and theorising a strategy for writing a web-series screenplay, prioritising the sensory
This practice-led research PhD is situated in the field of screenwriting practice studies and explores the development of a web series screenplay interweaving the haptic, to propose the concept of the ‘haptic encounter’. It is suggested that the haptic encounter may take place between the viewer …
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Relationships behind the camera: addressing the influence of the Thai cultural context on the relationship between filmmaker and participant in documentary filmmaking
This practice-led research aims to address the influence of Thai cultural context on the relationships between Thai filmmakers and Thai participants in documentary filmmaking. I was attempting to understand and conceptualise what kind of relationships are formed behind the camera and what the …
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Phenomenological costume-making: an embodied approach to movement and materiality in the making of performance wearables
This practice-led research examines the creative agency of costume through a phenomenological framework that defines the relationship between the designer’s body and materials within processes devised through this PhD. While scholarship on costume materiality and creative practice is gaining …
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