If art is used as a research media, insights can be gleaned which can reverberate into other areas of human experience, eg, solving conflict. Creative solutions can be applied within and outside art, if approach and methodology is applied systematically. This requires reflection and questioning of experience, and employing various research methods to the art experience.
McNiff, S. (2008) Art-based Research. In Knowles and Cole (2008) Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research. SAGE, pp 29-40. (OCA website) accessed 25th Feb 2011
Heuristic solutions are those such as an educated guess or intuitive judgement, finding a quick, experienced-based solution.
Reflection
It's a challenge to write about and justify how irritating I found this piece of text. I was very resistant to the tone, finding it overly worthy, although I did get what it is about and accept there is much to learn from it.
I perhaps cannot underestimate the effect of the actual text I was reading from - it is a print out of a photocopy, not very well done (sorry, Caroline), tiny script which distorts in size. I am dyslexic and have an aversion and sometimes a fixation with certain forms of text - I would say a reason for becoming an artist and writing fiction also stems from a desire and need to organise information into a more understandable form.
Perhaps it is a prejudice of mine, but I felt the rhetorical challenge asked by students within the text, "Do we have to translate artistic insights into words?" was well put and not answered. I'm not really arguing against any points he made, it's just that I found his examples poor, with the exception of Charlotte Salomon.
I dislike the concept of artist and researcher being synonymous. I know that's not exactly what McNiff says - he talks about insights he brings to his artistic practice, but it's only a way of speaking to call art research. There are elements, yes, and it is a useful reflective tool, but I think he falls into his own trap of self absorption with the recount of his tedious dream. It is all analysis without the abstract leap into art, which in the end, has qualities that can only by touched upon by certain language, and not this self referential minutiae.
5th April 2011
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