This theme approaches creative practice not just as an object of research but as a mode of enquiry spanning a host of approaches and methods. It foregrounds explorative, experimental, experiential, embodied and process-oriented ways of knowing and transmitting knowledge, as well as procedures that are collaborative and responsive to specific contexts and entanglements. For these reasons, the position of the researcher is also a key concern as are art and agency in relation to marginalised voices and experiences.
Topics we are interested in: Process-oriented research, artistic research, embodied and embedded methods, practical dramaturgy, critical fabulation and imaginaries, holistic methods, practice-based research, experimental ways of knowing, agential prefiguration, creative methods, dialogical art.
For further information and inquiries, you can contact: Trine Friis Sørensen
Research Activities
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Special Interest Group: Creative Research Methods
The SIG Creative Research Methods (CRM) is an informal network where creative researchers can share experiences and ideas across disciplines. The… > read more
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Performance Research Journal “On Spirituality”
This special journal issue, edited by Theron Schmidt and Evelyn Wan, invites the study of spirituality via a performance studies… > read more
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Performance Pedagogy
Performance Pedagogy: Objects, Transfers, Formations (edited by Felipe Cervera, Diana Damian Martin, Eero Laine, and Theron Schmidt, with contributions from UU… > read more
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Dramaturgy as a Practice of Lateral Movement
This project involves Sigrid Merx, Anastasia Hacopian and Trine Friis Sørensen, who together are developing a learning activity and a… > read more
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The Art of Lawlessness
The Art of Lawlessness is an interdisciplinary practice-based research project about artistic, activist and political practices that operate at the borders of the law. Konstantina… > read more
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Holistic Method, Holistic Technologies
The Holistic Technology Salon (V2_Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam) is a gathering space for collective reflection, embodied exploration, and alternative ways… > read more
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Beyond the Shore
The research and performance project Beyond the Shore is led by artist Alysa Leung (Alumnus of MA CTDD ‘22, UU) at artist collective If Time’s… > read more
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Creative Urban Methods Dossier
This special issue of Mediapolis, A Journal of Cities and Culture by Sigrid Merx, Coco Kanters, Michiel de Lange, and Nanna Verhoeff, introduces… > read more
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The Art of Being a University
The Art of Being a University is a creative, arts-based dialogue method that uses the tapestry Being a University as a catalyst for collective inquiry… > read more
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Het Vlak /The Square
Het Vlak is a creative, object-based dialogue method that enables participants to collaboratively explore complex societal and research-related questions. Rather than debating… > read more
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Performance Research Methods
Evelyn Wan Konstantina Georgelou Laura Karreman Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink Publications Theron SchmidtThis project and book describes and collects methods for interdisciplinary research, amongst others Dramaturgical Analysis, Spectatorship Analysis, Intersectionality, Practice-led Research,… > read more