Arts-Research Collaboration: Reflections on Collaboration as Creative Method

Citation

Morgan J & Castle S (2023) Arts-Research Collaboration: Reflections on Collaboration as Creative Method. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004231176280

Abstract
What is arts-research collaboration and how does it work? What does arts-research collaboration as method for qualitative inquiry do? What is the effect of collaboration on creative practice and academic research? Drawing on a collaboration between an anthropologist and an artist, this article addresses a surprising lack of qualitative inquiry into collaboration between creative practitioners and academic researchers. By recounting how the authors developed and used collaboration as method, the article identifies and analyses underpinning qualities of how they worked together through arts-research activities. It advances existing debate by agitating for more theoretically grounded accounts of collaboration, including those that take a processual view on making and creativity to argue for considering collaboration, itself, to be materials from which creative practice and outputs emerge. First published online July 4, 2023

Keywords
collaboration; methodologies; arts based inquiry; methods of inquiry; qualitative research; methodologies

Notes
Output Status: Forthcoming/Available Online

Journal
Qualitative Inquiry

People

Dr Jennie Morgan

Senior Lecturer in Heritage, History