Practice as Research Quotes

“In his description of memes, Richard Dawkins (1981) observes that survival of such entities is dependent on the capacity for self-replication, fitness or the likelihood of being replicated and fecundity or speed of replication to produce critical mass and ensure stability. An evolutionary advancement on their biological counterparts, memes can be described as cultural replicators.”
― Estelle Barrett, Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

“there is a need to generate appropriate discourses to convince assessors and policy-makers that within the context of studio-based research, innovation is derived from methods that cannot always be pre-determined, and “outcomes” of artistic research are necessarily unpredictable.”
― Estelle Barrett, Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

“That studio production as research is predicated on an alternative logic of practice often resulting in the generation of new ways of modelling meaning, knowledge and social relations is still a relatively foreign idea within in the wider university research community.”
― Estelle Barrett, Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry