Contents:

1. 300-word statement

2. Edited Book: The Creative Critic: Writing As/About Practice. Eds. Katja Hilevaara and Emily Orley (Routledge, 2018)

3. Digital: The Creative Critic Compoanion Website. Eds. Katja Hilevaara and Emily Orley

4. Section in a book: ‘An Introduction in Five Acts’ in The Creative Critic: Writing As/About Practice. Eds. Katja Hilevaara and Emily Orley (Routledge, 2018, pp1-22). Written with Emily Orley. 4. Website: ‘The Creative Critic Companion Site’, www.creativecritic.co.uk (2018) Designed by Katja Hilevaara and Emily Orley.

5. Article: ‘Making Making Matter: Paper as Paradox in Practice-as-Research’, in RUUKKU: Studies in Artistic Research, Nr 4: Process in Artistic Research (2015). Written with Emily Orley.

300-word statement

This output comprises an interdependent collection of works concerned with the practice of creative-critical writing. This practice is a method which approaches the form of research expression as constitutive of its conceptual argument, crafted in the spirit of the original artistic action. Each component, co-written between 2015-18, originates from examining my position as a practitioner-researcher working within the Academy and explores rigorous theoretical speculation in close affinity with the creative drives that animate my work as a performance artist. The method of experimentation in these works (a journal article and the introduction to the edited collection) uses dialogue as an encounter, both with the artwork and the interlocutor. By encountering an interlocutor and/or an artwork collaboratively, as both artist and critic, alongside the other and the artwork, I am able to challenge traditional hierarchical and dualistic epistemologies and celebrate making and thinking equally finding a communal practice of receptivity. Foregrounding dialogue and conversation as a method, I suggest, resists the single-authored research output and proposes an approach to how the making of intellectual property needs to be understood collaboratively and intertextually. The Creative Critic collection, which I co-edited with Emily Orley, can be seen as a manifestation of this communal practice and a summative output of my research. We gathered over thirty-five creative-critical writings by contemporary practitioner-researchers working in the fields of performance and visual art, to serve as examples for fellow academics wishing to challenge the false binaries that separate making and writing about making. Since publication, Orley and I have given talks and workshops on the book at five UK Universities and the Research Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale (see contextual information).

• Hilevaara, Katja and Orley, E. 2018. An Introduction in Five Acts. In: Katja Hilevaara and E Orley, eds. The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978113867482 / 9781138674837 [Book Section]
• Hilevaara, Katja and Orley, E, eds. 2018. The Creative Critic: Writing As/About Practice. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978113867482 / 9781138674837 [Edited Book]
• Hilevaara, Katja and Orley, E. 2018. The Creative Critic Companion Site. [Digital]
• Hilevaara, Katja and Orley, E. 2015. Making Making Matter: Paper as Paradox in Practice-as-Research. Ruukku: Studies in Artistic Research, 4, [Article]

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/25206