Associations: Creative Practice and Research

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Associations is a collection of essays on creative practice-as-research that have emerged from a series of partnerships and graduate forums at the VCA ;through the editor's research and research training work ;particularly in the context of expanded disciplinary practices. There is an important spectrum of creative practice and knowledge production where institutional and epistemological grounds ever shift. Therefore, the emphasis of the collection is distinctly interdisciplinary and methodological, with the essays developing discussion on how theory and practice connect to activate research. The book integrates discussion on creative practice-as-research as a nexus of histories of research traditions across artistic research, arts-based research, qualitative social science and creative humanities. The book is split into distinct sections- the first section comprises an introduction and the title essay; next is a section with a series of research manifestos, and then third section comprising a range of shorter essays articulating research practices.Associations is a collection of essays on creative practice-as-research that have emerged from a series of partnerships and graduate forums at the VCA ;through the editor's research and research training work ;particularly in the context of expanded disciplinary practices. There is an important spectrum of creative practice and knowledge production where institutional and epistemological grounds ever shift. Therefore, the emphasis of the collection is distinctly interdisciplinary and methodological, with the essays developing discussion on how theory and practice connect to activate research. The book integrates discussion on creative practice-as-research as a nexus of histories of research traditions across artistic research, arts-based research, qualitative social science and creative humanities. The book is split into distinct sections- the first section comprises an introduction and the title essay; next is a section with a series of research manifestos, and then third section comprising a range of shorter essays articulating research practices.
James Oliver is an academic and research artist based at the Faculty of the VCA and MCM, the University of Melbourne. His research practice has ranged across social and political science, the arts and humanities, the medical humanities and most recently artistic research ;with an emphasis on social and spatial practices and research training.