1. The subjective artist and the objective academicBen Parry

2. The use of practice in research and the methodology that killed the practitioner
Katy MacLeods research on PhD methodologies revealed candidates often suffered from "an acute anxiety about retaining their identity as artists
self-induced paranoia anxiety or valid cause for concern?
3. What will a PHD do for - and to - my creative practice as an artist?
4. ThedichotomybetweenPracticeandResearch in a practice-based model;between
-subjectiveartist andobjective academic researcher
-self-reflective artist andanalyticalresearcher
- tacit / experiential knowledge andcognitive knowledge
Art as a research tool ?
5. Questions to a practice-led researcher
Q: Can you advance art through a PHD?

Q: What do we understand within art/cultural practice as a real contribution
to original knowledge?

Q: What do we mean by knowledge in the context of art research?

Q: By contributing to original cultural production, do we necessarily
contribute to theory or cognitive knowledge?
Q: How do we develop methodology around practice that allows
sufficient freedom in which creative thought and inspiration can roam?

Q:How does art practice really become a research tool?

6. Subjective Art and Practical Knowledge
Research process as criteria of contribution to knowledge
Q: In what format is this knowledge to be represented?
Q: How does practice-based methodology balance the tacit dimension of
practical knowledge?
Q: How can we develop methodology around art practice?

The artist as the pragmatist of empirical knowledge
unquantifiable space of ideas is without measurement
intuition chance improvisation instinct spontaneity - engineered serendipity - luring of accidents
Q: How do you write-in and account for the tacit dimension of a practice-based
methodology?
7. The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions
Susan Sontag