Volume 5
Peer-reviewed papers from the Research into Practice conference 2008.
The problem of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts

Invited papers
- Michael Biggs - Editorial: the problem of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts
- Griselda Pollock - An engaged contribution to thinking about interpretation in research in/into practice
Selected papers
- Barbara Bolt – A Performative Paradigm for the Creative Arts?
- Clive Cazeaux – Locatedness and the objectivity of interpretation in practice-based research
- Daniela Büchler and Ana Gabriela Godinho Lima - Drawing about images: textual and non-textual interpretation
- Anna-Christina Engels-Schwarzpaul – At a loss for words? Hostile to language? Interpretation in creative practice-led PhD projects
- Solveigh Goett – The more art, the more science: narrative interpretations of art (and life)
- Ashley Holmes – Artworld: changing gatekeepers?
- Ben Matthews and Willem Horst – What can we learn from the probes? The role of interpretation in contributions to knowledge
- Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren – Uneasy alliances: art as observation, site, and social innovation
- Tom McGuirk – Beyond prejudice: method and interpretation in research in the visual arts
- Donal O'Donoghue – Can arts-researchers go where artists go? Questions of interpretation and practice as played out in, and through the work of the Canadian artist, Rebecca Belmore
- Dominic Rahtz – Figures of Interpretation
- Michael Schwab – The Power of Deconstruction in Artistic Research
- Graeme Sullivan – Methodological dilemmas and the possibility of interpretation
- Jane Tormey and Phil Sawdon – Are ambiguous research outputs undesirable?
- Valerie Triggs and Rita L Irwin – Educational arts research as aesthetic politics
- Kathleen Vaughan – The importance of asking the 'right' questions: considering issues of interpretation in art-as-research
- Jane Webb – Reconsidering forms of knowledge; or what happens when you try being a Neoplatonist
- Jennifer Webb and Donna O’Brien - 'Agnostic' thinking: creative writing as practice-led research