Drawing the Line: Evaluation, Boundary Work, and Boundary Objects in a New Discipline
Gerber, Alison LU
(2022)
p.377-404
- Abstract
- Artistic research—research carried out by artists, through artistic practice—displays the markers of a burgeoning academic discipline. Dominant perspectives on research cultures would therefore predict that practitioners’ boundary work would play a decisive role in the development of this field. But when binary understandings come up against multiplex meanings, when and how do binaries matter? Focusing on documentary evidence drawn from the Swedish artistic research field, I consider how evaluations and boundaries interact in this emerging research discipline by theorizing the relationship between commitments to boundary work and orientations to boundary objects. This analytical perspective offers specific insights into the definition of... (More)
- Artistic research—research carried out by artists, through artistic practice—displays the markers of a burgeoning academic discipline. Dominant perspectives on research cultures would therefore predict that practitioners’ boundary work would play a decisive role in the development of this field. But when binary understandings come up against multiplex meanings, when and how do binaries matter? Focusing on documentary evidence drawn from the Swedish artistic research field, I consider how evaluations and boundaries interact in this emerging research discipline by theorizing the relationship between commitments to boundary work and orientations to boundary objects. This analytical perspective offers specific insights into the definition of new artistic and academic fields, and how the research conducted within them is evaluated. (Less)
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- author
- Gerber, Alison
LU
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- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
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- subject
- host publication
- The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music : New Directions and New Discoveries - New Directions and New Discoveries
- editor
- McCormick, Lisa
- article number
- Chapter 14
- pages
- 377 - 404
- publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- ISBN
- 978-3-031-11420-5
- 978-3-031-11419-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-031-11420-5_14
- project
- Drawing the line: comparison and evaluation in emerging disciplines
- language
- English
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