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. Literature review: the critical and problematizing construction of the state of the art. The crossing discipline as a methodological opportunity for more contextualized and multidimensional knowledge of the case study. Understand theory as: a) a synthesis associated with experience, b) a disassembly criticism of empirical data c) an impermanent construction subject to contradiction.

3. Thesis Design: archiving information, chronological mapping of research, analysis of contents.

Head Lecturer(s)

Pedro Filipe Rodrigues Pousada

Assessment Methods

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

BIBLIOGRAFIA DE APOIO
Problemas metodológicos
Cahnmann-Taylor, M., & Siegesmund, R. (Eds.). (2008). Arts-based research in education:Foundations for practice. New York: Routledge.
Green, J.L., Camilli, G., & Elmore, P.B. (2006). Handbook of complementary methods in education research. Washington, DC: AERA.

Knowles, J.G., & Cole, A.L. (2008) Handbook of arts in qualitative research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Leavy, P. (2008). Method meets art: Arts-based research practice. New York: Guilford Press.
Liamputtong, P., & Rumbold, J. (2008) Knowing differently: Arts-based and collaborative research methods. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Macleod, K. (2005). Thinking through art reflections on art as research. New York: Routledge Press.
Lowry, Sean & de Freitas, Nancy. (2013). The Frontiers of Artistic Research: The challenge of critique, peer review and validation at the outermost limits of location-specificity. In Critique 2013, Conference Proceedings 26 – 2.