Artistic research in performance through collaboration

This volume explores the issue of collaboration which is an issue at the centre of Performance Arts Research. It is explored here through the different practices of in music, dance, drama, fine art, installation art, digital media or other performance arts. Collaborative processes are seen to develop as it occurs between academic researchers in the creative arts and professional practitioners in commercial organisations in the creative arts industries (and beyond), or as it focuses attention and understanding on the tacit/implicit dimensions of working across different media.

Part I. Critical contexts. Introduction: Defining the territory : collaborative processes, issues and concepts -- The place of artistic research in higher education -- Part II. Collaborative demonstrations in practice. Why collaborate? Critical reflections on collaboration in artistic research in classical music performance -- The aesthetics of artistic collaboration -- In the bee hive : valuing craft in the creative industries -- The right thing to play? Issues of riff, groove and theme in freely improvised ensemble music : a case study -- Soundpainting : a tool for collaborating during performance -- Collaboration and the practitioner-researcher : a composer's perspective -- Creative industries and copyright : research into collaborative artistic practices in dance -- Romance and contagion : notes on a conversation between drawing and dance -- The good, the god, and the guillotine : insider/outsider perspectives -- Connecting silos : examples of arts organisation and HEI collaborations at the foundation for art and creative technology.