You mean Practice is a research method!

Seeking Practice v Understanding Practice

 

What eluded me, throughout this period, was how to do practice. If you are using a narrative research methodology you can use interviews as the process. If you using a practice research method, do you use narrative as the process to record the practice? I kept trying to impose one method on top of another, to achieve a working method. As my supervisor was stepping into this area at the same time we were both searching for a solution. Looking back I looked under a number of stones for an answer, and practiced based literature did not seem very supportive, as there was a very theoretical response to the practicalities of the research method. As Burgin [1] suggests, a practical art response can be created, however he does talk of the confusion in the status of the written component. This confusion seems to affect the whole practice process.

 

 

[1] Burgin. “Thoughts on ‘Research’ Degrees in Visual Arts Departments.” Westminster University, 2002. http://www.westminster.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/74593/VictorBurgin_ThoughtsOnResearch.pdf.