How To Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation
By Natalie Loveless
Duke University Press, 2019
Paperback, 9 x 6 in.
176 pages
$23.95
WPA Note:
This book connects to WPA's artist-driven program model, explaining the importance of artistic research and curiosity-driven practices.
Description:
Research-creation considers art practices as research methods in their own right. In this book, Natalie Loveless draws on diverse perspectives—from feminist science studies to psychoanalytic theory—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.
About the Author(s):
Natalie S. Loveless is an associate professor located at the University of Alberta’s Department of Art and Design, where she teaches in the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture. Her recent books, How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation and Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation examine debates surrounding research-creation and its institutionalization, paying particular attention to what it means — and why it matters — to make and teach art research-creation in the North American universities today.