Week 10 Notes

Exegesis - definition. Critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a scripture.

An accompanying written document or 'exegsis' for creative work, to explain what it is about and let the viewer be informed by the creative process.

Practice-led research is a unique research paradigm because it situates creative practice as both a driver and outcome of the research process. Positions the researcher in a unique relationship with the subject of the research.

Exegesis therefore, cannot simply replicate the traditional thesis models of the sciences and humanities. It initiates a new form of academic writing. Need to contextualise you work within the work of others. Grounding it in research. The act of finding out becomes the thing, the act of discovery becomes the product.

We are forming an understanding around out work which is an unknown entity, with our methodology at the centre.

Need to figure out my research question, a critical examination of what I am doing. From nothing to something.

• Why am I doing this?

• Why is it important that I'm using film?

• Why is it important to explore the significance of my project?

  • Why is it important to explore the relationship between the environment and the feminised body?

  • Earth + women, whats going on there?

  • Gender and the environment, female body and environment.

In regards to the essay: Position our subjective knowledge into a wider context of knowledge, opening it up to interpretation, showing specific moments, and how they've contributed to your theory/film production.

• Just pick one moment and drill down into it.

• Interrogate a point where I got stuck, or reassess a moment etc.

• Technical, thematic etc.

• Researching frameworks and visual strategies by watching other films.

• Form is structure

• In the appendix, put the risk assessment, release forms and any ethical issues.

• copyright and logistics as well.

• positioning my practice as a form of academic research and at the same time, doing justice to its invested poetics.

• DON'T LOSE YOUR NERVE, YOU ARE WALKING A DIFFICULT LINE, STICK TO YOUR GUNS.

• The line is between autonomous creative work, and a piece that raises useful questions and critiques.

• Don't worry if it doesn't align, take what you need and go forward.

• Creative practice

• Discussion of creative artifacts

What questions does your practice raise? What interests you most about it?

• Set clear boundaries in the essay, you don't have to answer everything. Acknowledge what you aren't going to be focusing on.

The work that I'm doing is raising so many questions which I wouldn't have had if I had not done the work. Acknowledge that.

Make sure you mention HOW you did the research as much as WHAT you discovered... LOOK AT SLIDES WITH WRITING STRUCTURE HELP.

Precedents of your practice are important - what has gone before. Maybe make a blog post about this to reference. Also mention your references and other people who are working in the same field.

Identity how this shaped your practice and why : eg. filmmakers Jonathan Glazer and Matthew Barney, choreographers Bob Fosse and Merce Cunningham, artwork of Raft of the Medusa, Deren and Meshes of the Afternoon and Creed, Kristeva and Le Guin's writings.

HOW you did things is very important, so that other researchers can VALIDATE what you have done, replicability.