ABSTRACT
Australia’s National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research, 2007 implies that it’s unsure how to think about creative practice research. It offers a general definition of ‘research’ as ‘widely understood to include at least investigation undertaken to gain knowledge and understanding or to train researchers’. The implications of Varela’s emphasis on immediate action lies in shifting ethics away from a suite of abstract principles that one applies to situations. Rather, ethics becomes a concern for how one acts in the midst of inhabiting events together, responding to particularities as they unfold. The workshop, because it involved working with ‘human participants’, required an ethics approval. A line separating art and life is often hard to find, particularly when connected by a desire to attend ethically to whatever situation is at hand. The inclusive tenor of the events aimed to embody the situated ethics that had been important from the outset.
