Processing the Practice as Research

Circling around the idea of practice as an artistic research method/ology, I keep returning to process and what that is in relation to practice

Some thoughts ...

process

• steps
• instructions
• order (of operations)

practice (method)

• procedure
• the doing
• working through

Attributes of

Practice as/is Research & Artistic Research Methods

• engagement (trial & error)
• doing / making
• accidental
• incidental
• wonder
• wandering
• embodiment
• world-making/ score / infrastructure
• time (non-linear time / memory / temporality
• I / ethnography / place for the 'I'
• rhizomes
• scale
• 'ing -ing'
• juxtaposition
• lens (possible awareness of)

Before entering the discovery phase of my practice, I wanted to consider the methods I might use in the process of "the doing." Having already realized that my practice is mostly cerebral--meditation, listing, reflection, and writing--I wanted to explore different approaches to this project. 

I committed to get out of my head and into my body by moving as part of this practice. Within the moving, I presumed there would be some time spent wandering and simply observing, waiting for whatever might draw my attention. In my engagement, I watched, listened, took photos and videos, which evolved my wandering to wondering and making connections to the research process.