Artists in the University : Positioning Artistic Research in Higher Education

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This book focuses on the relationship between the university and a particular cohort of academic staff: those in visual and performing arts disciplines who joined the university sector in the 1990s. It explores how artistic researchers have been accommodated in the Australian university management framework and the impact that this has had on their careers, identities, approaches to their practice and the final works that they produce. The book provides the first analysis of this topic across the artistic disciplinary domain in Australia and updates the findings of Australia’s only comprehensive study of the position of research in the creative arts within the government funding policy setting reported in 1998 (The Strand Report). Using lived examples and a forensic approach to the research policy challenges, it shows that while limited progress has been made in the acceptance of artistic research as legitimate research, significant structural, cultural and practical challenges continue to undermine relationships between universities and their artistic staff and affect the nature and quality of artistic work. Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Artists in the University: An Introduction (Jenny Wilson)....Pages 1-20 Worlds Colliding—The Ongoing Influence of Amalgamation (Jenny Wilson)....Pages 21-41 The University as a Site for Artistic Practice (Jenny Wilson)....Pages 43-57 Is Artistic Practice Research? (Jenny Wilson)....Pages 59-81 Artistic Research Within National Research Policy (Jenny Wilson)....Pages 83-105 Artistic Research and University Research Management Practices (Jenny Wilson)....Pages 107-124 Institutional Research Management from the Inside (Jenny Wilson)....Pages 125-145 Artistic Evolution or Goal Displacement?: The Influence of Academia upon Artistic Approach, Identity and Artwork (Jenny Wilson)....Pages 147-168 Improving Institutional Responses to Artistic Research (Jenny Wilson)....Pages 169-184 Beyond Equivalency: Repositioning Artistic Research Within Higher Education (Jenny Wilson)....Pages 185-202 Back Matter ....Pages 203-229