SUGGESTED READINGS

we have put together an initial reading, watching & listening list of resources to get you thinking about approaches to creative research and practice, ethics, And ways of knowing and making. take a look and see what piques your interest.

 

+ Reading List

Barrett, B. and Bolt, B. (eds) (2007) Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry. I.B.Tauris

Barton, B., Friberg, C. and Parekh-Gaihede, R. (eds.) (2017) At the Intersection Between Art & Research: Practice-Based Research in the Performing Arts. Aarhus University Press

Candy, L. (2019). The Creative Reflective Practitioner: Research Through Making and Practice (1st ed.). Routledge.

MacLeod, K. and Holdridge, L. (2009) Thinking Through Art: Reflections on Art as Research. Routledge.

MacLeod, K. (2000) The functions of the written text in practice-based PhD submissions. Working Papers in Art and Design 1. Available from http://www.herts.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/12289/WPIAAD_vol1_macleod.pdf

Phillips. E. and Pugh, D. (2010) How to get a PhD - A Handbook for Students and their Supervisors, 5th edition. Open University Press.

Smith, P. and Wilde C. (eds.) (2002) A Companion to Art Theory. Blackwell.

Sullivan, G. (2005) Art Practice as Research. SAGE.

Vaughan, L. (2017) Practice-based Design Research. Bloomsbury

The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR), available from https://www.jar-online.net/

Tharp, T. (2006) The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. Simon & Schuster

Meskomen, M. (2003) Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics. Routledge

Lack, J. (2017) Why Are We Artists? 100 World Art Manifestos. Modern Classics

Kalia, J. and Seppä, A. and Slager, H. (2017) Futures of Artistic Research: At The Intersection of Utopia, Academia and Power.

Meskimmon, M. and Rowe, D. (2013) Women, The Arts and Globalization: Eccentric Experience. Manchester University Press.

Singh, Juliette. Unthinking Mastery : Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.

Rogoff, Irit. “Practicing Research: Singularising Knowledge”, MaHKUzine #9, Summer 2010.

Puig De La Bellacasa, María. Matters of Care : Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. Posthumanities ; 41. 2017.

Ayca, Elvira Espejo. Universal Education’ in Art and its Painful Division. Afterall Art School, 2020.

Ingold, Tim. Imagining for Real : Essays on Creation, Attention and Correspondence. 2021.Marisol De La Cadena. Earth Beings. The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures. Duke University Press, 2015.

D'Evie, Fayen. "Orienting through Blindness: Blundering, Be-Holding, and Wayfinding as Artistic and Curatorial Methods." Performance Paradigm 13 (2017): 42.

Trinh T. Minh-Ha. Woman, Native, Other. Indiana University Press, 2009.

Santos, Boaventura De Sousa. Epistemologies of the South : Justice against Epistemicide. 2013.

Sadokierski, Zoë. "Developing Critical Documentation Practices for Design Researchers." Design Studies 69 (2020): 100940.

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World : On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Book Collections on Project MUSE. 2015.

Da Silva, Denise Ferreira. "Toward a Black Feminist Poethics." The Black Scholar 44, no. 2 (2014): 81-97.

Hessler, Stefanie, and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Tidalectics : Imagining an Oceanic Worldview through Art and Science. 2018.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Touching Feeling. Duke University Press, 2003.

Ahmed, S. (2017) Living A Feminist Life. Duke University Press
Burrows, J. (2010) A Choreographer's Handbook. Routledge

Mersch, D. (2015) Epistemologies of Aesthetics. Diaphanes

 

+ Watching List

http://www.ubu.com - UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

Abstract Art is Political | Artist Sam Gilliam | Louisiana Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciN6ZPDMJV4

“I am interested in the cycle of damage and repair” | Artist Phyllida Barlow | Louisiana Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7iDtyzEMCk

Coco Fusco - The Art of Decolonization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kWaY9q0zYI

Achille Mbembe: "The Idea of a World Without Borders” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLRpH5RRwhQ

Manthia Diawara - "Edouard Glissant: A Demand for the Right of Opacity" - 2019-08-04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KJpd2wyf8

Fred Moten, An Ecology of (Eloquent) Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oRKOhlMmKQ

Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc

Theaster Gates Explores the Politics of the African-American Experience | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1D4ne1jQKs

Theaster Gates: Collecting | Art21 "Extended Play" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byin7zoiiUU

Otobong Nkanga / Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiGE4swaxbM

Otobong Nkanga Interview: Portals to Other Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HacY_N7TDt4

Lubaina Himid: Turner Prize 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKiN2FHqYFU

Donna Haraway, “Making Oddkin: Story Telling for Earthly Survival” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-iEnSztKu8

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing - A Feminist Approach to the Anthropocene: Earth Stalked by Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps8J6a7g_BA

William Kentridge Interview: How We Make Sense of the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G11wOmxoJ6U

William Kentridge – ‘Art Must Defend the Uncertain’ | Artist Interview | TateShots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnweo-LQZLU

Guadalupe Maravilla & the Sound of Healing | Art21 "New York Close Up" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OQeUMZ3jNk

Legacy Russell - "On Footnotes" https://vimeo.com/656701764

Artistic Doctorate Resources - Forms of Writing https://artisticdoctorateresources.com/writing/

Astrida Neimanis - "We Are All At Sea" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp1wo1irkQA

Marisol de la Cadena - "Runa: Human but Not Only" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hzNhIErr5A

 

+ Listening List & other resources

Promise No Promises podcast - https://dertank.ch/en/we-explore/podcast-promise-no-promises/

Ahali Conversations with Can Altay https://podcasts.apple.com/pe/podcast/ahali-conversations-with-can-altay/id1516621041

Raw Material (SFMOMA) https://podcasts.apple.com/pe/podcast/raw-material/id79896290

Serpentine Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/pe/podcast/serpentine-podcast/id1161425866

Research Catalogue- an international database for artistic research https://www.researchcatalogue.net/

Society for Artistic Research - https://societyforartisticresearch.org/