How to Make Art at the End of the World
Subtitle: A Manifesto for Research-Creation
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781478004028
Subjects: Arts, study and teaching; Creation (literary, artistic, etc.); Education, higher, aims and objectives; Education, higher, social aspects; Education, higher, moral and ethical aspects
Description: In recent years, the rise of research-creation - a scholarly activity that considers art practices as research methods in their own right - has emerged from the organic convergences of the arts and interdisciplinary humanities, and it has been fostered by universities wishing to enhance their public profiles. In 'How to Make Art at the End of the World' Natalie Loveless draws on diverse perspectives-from feminist science studies to psychoanalytic theory, as well as her own experience advising undergraduate and graduate students-to argue for research-creation as both a means to produce innovative scholarship and a way to transform pedagogy and research within the contemporary neoliberal university. Championing experimental, artistically driven methods of teaching, researching, and publication, research-creation works to render daily life in the academy more pedagogically, politically, and affectively sustainable, as well as more responsive to issues of social and ecological justice.