unravelling practice: a research blog

This research blog is a space and vehicle to document, experiment, create, explore and make sense of an arts practice. Using ethnographic writing, chapters will form through posts about process and thinking, reflection on work, existing, and new ideas. Sharing lived experiences of knowledge production makes the indecision, decision making, strategies, successes, failures, tactics, distractions and diversions visible.

This space will enable experimentation with different modes of writing to purposefully and discursively narrate ideas, research, documented images and thoughts of making, plans and the process of planning. Sharing through publishing to an imagined audience (you the reader), will provide an opportunity for playful exploration, and dialogic potential.

Different modes of writing: descriptive, reflective, explorative, personal, critical, informative and creative are vehicles to demystify, and make the processes of making more transparent. ‘Telling stories’ about the research process potentially provides a pedagogic strategy and insight into one’s practice, where newly created artefacts of the research process, and opportunities for text based and spoken works, will emerge.