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Paradigmatic considerations for creative practice in Creative Industries research: the case of Australia's Indie 100
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Paradigmatic considerations for creative practice in Creative Industries research: the case of Australia's Indie 100

Philip Graham
Creative Industries Journal, Vol.9(1), pp.47-65
2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2016.1154655
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creative practice practice-led research creative industries research creative research paradigms Indie 100
This paper begins with the assertion that research grounded in creative practice constitutes a new paradigm. We argue both for and against the idea. We argue against the idea in terms of applying it to the idealised 'lone artist' engaged in the production of their art, whose focus of research is a self-reflection upon the art they produce, and whose art is also the findings of the research. Our position is that such an approach cannot be considered as anything other than a form of auto-phenomenography, that such efforts are part of qualitative research, and they are thus trivial in paradigmatic terms. However, we argue in the positive for understanding the artistic event - by which we mean any mass ecology of artistic practice - as being paradigmatically new in terms of research potentials and demands. Our exemplar for that argument is a practice-led, large-scale annual event called Indie 100 which has run for five years and has demonstrated a distinct paradigmatic 'settling in' over its duration while clearly pushing paradigmatic boundaries for research into creative practice. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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