ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author illustrates the plethoric nature of the project in order to make an argument about how we might 'read', or at least understand, the data excess of the sort typically generated by performance as research (PAR). He explains how the re-vocalisation of research processes might introduce notions like the creative plethoric into the discourse of research, for the layers of voicing inherent in PAR work imply multiplicities of perspectives and of bodies that 'normal' research discourses might frame as lacking in rigour or clarity. Any qualitative research that incorporates input from, investigates the qualities of, or explores the individual trajectories of human creative behaviour is likely to generate some sort of plethora. The chapter asserts that PAR projects do this in a way that is extra-excessive, and that the vocal qualities of this project make it a celebration of an even more exaggerated form of that plethora.
