ABSTRACT

As practitioner-researchers, how do we discuss and analyse our work without losing the creative drive that inspired us in the first place?

Built around a diverse selection of writings from leading researcher-practitioners and emerging artists in a variety of fields, The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice celebrates the extraordinary range of possibilities available when writing about one’s own work and the work one is inspired by. It re-thinks the conventions of the scholarly output to propose that critical writing be understood as an integral part of the artistic process, and even as artwork in its own right.

Finding ways to make the intangible nature of much of our work ‘count’ under assessment has become increasingly important in the Academy and beyond. The Creative Critic offers an inspiring and useful sourcebook for students and practitioner-researchers navigating this area.

Please see the companion site to the book, https://www.creativecritic.co.uk, where some of the chapters have become unfixed from the page.

part |97 pages

Folding outwards 1

chapter 1|5 pages

I am for an Art (Writing)

chapter 2|9 pages

Lyric Theory

chapter 4|8 pages

Writing Without Writing

Conversation-as-material

chapter 5|6 pages

The Distracted Cyclist

chapter 7|7 pages

An Extract from Asara and the Sea-Mosntress

A play with theory

chapter 8|8 pages

Same Difference

chapter 9|7 pages

Critical Groundlessness

Reflections on embodiment, virtuality and Quizoola Live

chapter 11|8 pages

Yoko Ono Fanfiction

chapter 12|5 pages

A Fugue State Of Theatre

On Simon Vincenzi’s operationinfinity.org

chapter 13|8 pages

Writing with Fungi, Contagious

chapter |4 pages

Middleword One

What kind of writing do we do?

part |89 pages

Folding outwards 2

chapter 17|6 pages

Instructions for Literature and Life

Writing-with landscape performances of joy

chapter 22|6 pages

IT Moves

Reflections on walking as a practice of writing

chapter 23|7 pages

In Departures, Not Departing,

chapter 24|6 pages

A Stranger Here

Reflections from within Strange Pearls

chapter 25|5 pages

Elfie und Eleonore (Für Heidi)

chapter 26|6 pages

Marking A Life

chapter |3 pages

Middleword Two

The Critic as Gesture or John Malkovich's middle name is Gavin

part |84 pages

Folding outwards 3

chapter 27|8 pages

Are There any Pictures in it?

Creative practice as a serious research vehicle

chapter 28|6 pages

An Actor's Attempt at Sisyphus' Stone

Memory, performance and archetype

chapter 30|7 pages

Language, Lips And Legacy

A pedlar’s life for me

chapter 31|7 pages

A Series of Continuous Accidents

chapter 37|5 pages

K.BAE.TRÉ

chapter |2 pages

Middleword Three

When

chapter |4 pages

Afterword

L'après-coup