Artistic Research: Charting a Field in Expansion

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Paulo de Assis, Lucia D'Errico
Rowman & Littrlefield, 2019 - Philosophy - 258 pages
This book represents a primer on artistic research, presenting diverse perspectives, strategies, methodologies, and concrete examples of research projects situated at the crossroads of art and academia. Exposing international work of significant research projects from Europe, Asia, Australia, South- and North America, it provides a multidisciplinary overview on different discourses and practices, exploring cutting-edge questions coming from the burgeoning field of artistic research. The first part includes chapters on artistic research and diverse artistic fields, addressing a common thread of questions and problematics. The second part provides insights into six internationally relevant artistic research projects. The comprehensive editors' introduction offers a much-needed and extensive overview practice-based artistic research in general. Ideal for graduate students across Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Art, Music, Performance Studies and more, The book is enhanced by a range of multimedia components (images, videos, sounds).

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About the author (2019)

Paulo de Assis is an experimental performer, pianist, musicologist, and music philosopher. Professor and researcher in Artistic Research at the Orpheus Institute Ghent, he is an expert in music performance, contemporary music, experimental performance practices, transdisciplinary discourses, and artistic research. Lucia D'Errico is a musician, multimedia performer, and graphic designer. She is an artistic researcher at the Orpheus Institute Ghent (BE), part of the research cluster MusicExperiment21. She performs on guitar and other plucked-stringed instruments, with a particular focus on Western notated art music of the 20th and 21st centuries and on experimental performance practices.

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