Art and performance research

Our research

Our leading creative researchers work across art and performance in three key areas:

• material and visual cultures
• embodied performativities
• contemporary publics.

Research initiatives range from publicly activated inflatable artworks to dramatic interventions in the city, from the science and aesthetics of dance and movement to the military body, from theoretically inflected experimental writing to curatorial interventions in museum collections, from the politics of representation to community sector arts research.

As a strongly interdisciplinary area, art and performance provides a laboratory-style research environment. It investigates creative thinking and practices of representation, utilising theoretical frameworks that expand understanding of creative arts practice. Art and performance research is driven by engagement, impact and esteem, and seeks to align both non-traditional and traditional research outcomes with equal rigour. The research also engages in partnerships for mutual advantage and real-world creative outcomes.

Members of this group generate knowledge through creative, critical and theoretical inquiries, which are conceptualised through ideas about embodied cognition, material logics, curatorial rethinking, and by thinking through making.