Artists in the University Positioning Artistic Research in Higher E
This book focuses on the relationship between the university and a particular cohort of academic staff: those in visual and performing arts disciplines who joined the university sector in the 1990s. It explores how artistic researchers have been acc
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Artists in the University Positioning Artistic Research in Higher Education
Artists in the University
Jenny Wilson
Artists in the University Positioning Artistic Research in Higher Education
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Jenny Wilson Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-5773-1 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-5774-8
ISBN 978-981-10-5774-8
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Foreword
Reasoning Through Art Let me take up a key theme that is addressed in this book and that is highly relevant for understanding the position of artistic research and artistic researchers in academia: the idea that artistic research—though incongruent with academia at first sight—is nevertheless equivalent to other forms of academic research. My point, in agreement with the position expressed in this book, is that it is not equivalent. Let me explain. The notion of ‘equivalence’ was first introduced in 1997 in a report by the working group on practice-based doctorates in the creative and performing arts, commissioned by the UK Council for Graduate Education and chaired by Sir Christopher Frayling. A year later, the notion was more extensively introduced and championed in Australia in the Strand Report.1 This is how it was formulated in the Frayling report: [The] inclusive model would involve either demonstrating/accepting that the activities and outcomes [of practice-based research in the arts] could reasonably be seen as consistent with a traditional scientific model, or broadening the
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