ABSTRACT
Creating place-based performance works in research contexts, and in response to research engagements, is nothing new; but doing so in ways that attend to the affective dimensions of this work are. This study investigates the culturally specific forms of creativity—its practices and discourses—across higher education and creative and cultural industries throughout East Asia and Australia. This essay specifically addresses the devising component of a larger study, a verbatim theatre devising work in Hong Kong, which offers possibilities for expanding the depth, relationships and affective resonance of large-scale international research projects.
