Art Research Methodologies I

Recommended Prerequisites

The PhD student should display that she/he is able to manage and produce a critical review of the literature that in the framework of art theory, art history and artistic culture in general (cinema, architecture, design, theater, dance) has been producing knowledge and methodologies of analysis that have migrated to the field of artistic practices whether in the context of its production or of its reception.
Written and spoken Knowledge of English is recommended

Teaching Methods

The theoretical nature (T) of the curricular unit presupposes that the teaching-learning dynamic values:
1.    Oral presentation of the contents of the program using audiovisual materials and concrete models for the collection and processing of information, whether bibliographical, digital, iconographic, resulting from institutional archives or specific authors, or resulting from direct testimony;
2.    Practical work where primary methodologies of real analysis will be explored.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand the operational differences between the scientific method and the artistic method, to interact and put into dialogue the two spheres of knowledge production.

2. Understand the methodological approach in its ethnographic and archival-historiographic variants: "Etic research" and "Emic research", critical distancing and immersion in the artistic phenomenon. The objective approach and the subjective approach: problems and opportunities.

3. To characterize the instruments and methodologies indispensable to the elaboration of a research project, of theoretical nature, or theoretical-practical nature; Qualitative assessment of the development of research practices in Art at the Academy.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Art  based Research Methodologies I
will develop a pedagogical framework focused in:
1.    The characterization of methodologies, norms and procedures already formally accepted in the field of Art based research; The acquisition and dissemination of academic rules for writing scientific papers; The interaction between the poetic and self-reflexive dimension of the artistic process (techniques, ideas and projects) and the theoretical and laboratory framework associated with the scientific method.

2.    The literature review: the critical discussion and makingof the state of the art. The cross-disciplinary approach as a methodological opportunity for the more contextualized and multidimensional knowledge of the case study. Understanding Theory as: a) a synthesis associated with experience, b) a critical disassembly of the empirical data c) an impermanent construction subject to contradiction.

3.    Thesis design: data analysis, archiving practices, research timeline.

Head Lecturer(s)

Pedro Filipe Rodrigues Pousada

Assessment Methods

Continuous assessment
Attendance and participation in the debates: 20.0%
Specific report requested by the teacher: reading sheet of an academic article highlighting a summary of the theoretical basis and methodological perspectives of the text under analysis: 80.0%

Bibliography

1. CEIA, Carlos, Normas para a Apresentação de Trabalhos Científicos, Lisboa, Presença, 2008.
2. ELKINS, James (Ed.), Artists with PhDs: on the New doctoral degree in Studio Art, 2009.
3. FRANKFORT-NACHMIAS, Chava, Research Methods in the Social Sciences. New York: St Martin's Press, 1992.
4. KRAUSS, Rosalind, A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition London: Thames & Hudson, 2000.
5. GRAY, Carole & MALINS, Julian, Visualizing Research- a Guide to the research process in Art and Design, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing limited, 2004.

6. LOWRY, Sean & FREITAS, Nancy de, The Frontiers of Artistic Research: The challenge of critique, peer review and validation at the outermost limits of location-specificity.In CRITIQUE 2013,P Conference Proceedings, 26-28 Novemebr 2013, Adelaide, Australia.
7. PALTRIDGE B, Starfield S and RAVELLI L. (Eds), Doctoral Writing in the Creative and Performing Arts: The Researcher/Practitioner Nexus, Oxfordshire: Libri Publishing Ltd, 2013.