The known world
TEXT October 30, 2010 DOI: 10.52086/001c.31508 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Citations | 19 |
| Key points | Argues that arts-based scholarly research requires a dual consciousness, in which the tacit, embodied knowledge developed through iterative artistic practice is generated, valued, and communicated alongside the explicit, analytical mode privileged in academia, and asks whether the two modes can inform and enrich each other. |
Abstract
This essay examines the dual consciousness that needs to be activated when the creative arts are used as the basis for scholarly research. In an academic tradition that has always prioritised analysis and critical distance, how and why should we generate, value and communicate the intimately involved and embodied knowledge—the tacit knowledge won from active experience—that often develops in the experimental and iterative practices deployed by artists? How can tacit knowledge be usefully explicated and communicated? And is there any chance these two cognitive modes can inform and enrich each other—the implicit and the explicit?