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International Conference | 29 June - 03 July 2005 Bannerman: Christopher | UK Witness to Process –a performative paper including an earwitness report on an artist-led study, exploring the dynamic relationship between intuition and craft in works of artistic creation in the performing arts. ABSTRACT A 40 minute performative paper in which the formal convention of a conference presentation is interrupted by a series of improvised and responsive interventions by two artist-makers. Christopher Bannerman has been ‘witness’ to the explorations and reflections of the creative process of artists associated with ResCen, Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts, for the last five years. As Head of the Centre he has observed the arising discourses. In this presentation he offers an eye- and ear-witness report on the creative processes articulated by those associated artists attached to ResCen. The authority of his witnessing and its presumed impartiality, is called into question by the interventions of two of the artists themselves, who, at unrehearsed moments in the delivery of the paper, interrupt with points of clarification, support, or disagreement. A central theme of the paper is a proposed dynamic relationship between intuition and craft and how these two areas can be understood as knowledge domains.
Questions include: · how can the dynamic between intuition/spontaneous insight/inspiration in relation to craft/skills/experience be characterised? (see Pullman, P. All around you is silence Guardian www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,970602,00.html) · what is the relationship between intuitive ‘playing’ and crafted ‘working’ and are there states of mind that the artists identify as offering enhanced creativity? · if artists are explorers as suggested by Macdonald and Ingold et al (/www.dundee.ac.uk/fineart/ahrb/phdapp.html), how does the dynamic inform the exploration/navigation? · are aspects of that dynamic in artmaking learned and if so how? · are artists archetypal life-long learners, constantly inventing new problems that require new solutions? Key words: creativity, artist, practice as research, intuition, craft
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