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: Received: 6 November 2023 / Approved: 7 November 2023 / Online: 7 November 2023 (11:31:00 CET)
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Michaels, D. From Creative, Reflective, Practice to Affective Reflexivity as an Art Research Methodology. Preprints2023, 2023110392. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.0392.v1
Michaels, D. From Creative, Reflective, Practice to Affective Reflexivity as an Art Research Methodology. Preprints 2023, 2023110392. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.0392.v1
Michaels, D. From Creative, Reflective, Practice to Affective Reflexivity as an Art Research Methodology. Preprints2023, 2023110392. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.0392.v1
APA Style
Michaels, D. (2023). From Creative, Reflective, Practice to Affective Reflexivity as an Art Research Methodology. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.0392.v1
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Michaels, D. 2023 "From Creative, Reflective, Practice to Affective Reflexivity as an Art Research Methodology" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.0392.v1
Abstract
A capacity to reflect on experience and learn through it (reflective and reflexive practice) is deemed an essential part of ethical practice and research. Challenging traditional research approaches this arts-based, inter-disciplinary, Ph.D. project explores artistic practice as a research methodology, and how learning through experiences of ‘making’ things may enhance and amplify our understanding of the more affective aspects of human situations and experience. Grounded in the author’s artistic practice and learning through experiences of ‘making’, the author assembles and adapts frames from psychoanalysis, art (psycho)therapy, and the arts with/through which to observe and document their experience of an organisational situation. Describing the development of their method in three phases, analysis takes place through returning to revisit and rework artistic material produced, and engaging in conversation with the emergent material and others in response. Results take the form of artworks and artistic projects, including documentation of process. Emergent threads draw attention to the speculative, entangled, and affective nature of the research process, the reflexivity generated through moving and handling material, and the reflexive work of undergoing, foregrounding an ethics of responsibility, attention, and care for/of the body. As a space for imaginative encounter and performative enactment, and a site for reflexivity through which one may be pressed to notice and feel more acutely, the author argues that the research value resides in the capacity of this method to embrace complex relationalities, and engage our affective, ethical sensibilities in ways that may not emerge through more traditional approaches to reflective/reflexive practice(s). This has implications for both art therapy practice and research, amplifying the learning opportunities afforded by moving, modifying, and assembling things differently, the embodied ‘work’ of art as a method of enquiry, the cultural sensitivity of documentary fragments captured in/through various media and voices, and the value of collaborative endeavours where meaning is co-constructed in conversation.
Keywords
Reflective art practice; affective reflexivity; art-based research; art therapy; response art; embodied observation; interdisciplinarity; ethics
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Art
Copyright:
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