How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation - Paperback

by Natalie Loveless (Author)

In recent years, the rise of research-creation-a scholarly activity that considers art practices as research methods in their own right-has emerged from the organic convergences of the arts and interdisciplinary humanities, and it has been fostered by universities wishing to enhance their public profiles. In How to Make Art at the End of the World Natalie Loveless draws on diverse perspectives-from feminist science studies to psychoanalytic theory, as well as her own experience advising undergraduate and graduate students-to argue for research-creation as both a means to produce innovative scholarship and a way to transform pedagogy and research within the contemporary neoliberal university. Championing experimental, artistically driven methods of teaching, researching, and publication, research-creation works to render daily life in the academy more pedagogically, politically, and affectively sustainable, as well as more responsive to issues of social and ecological justice.

Author Biography

Natalie Loveless is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory at the University of Alberta and editor of New Maternalisms Redux and Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation.