Tricksters and Mindful Heresy: Disrupting the Taken for Granted in Creative Research

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Research Cluster Academic Year
2014
Research Cluster Project Director(s)
Sarah Amira de la Garza, Ph.D., D.Min, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
Marivel Danielson, Ph.D., School of Transborder Studies
Chema Sol-Rojas Salinas, Ph.D., Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
Description

This cluster interrogates the notion of creative activity as a form of research method in the arts and humanities. Creatively oriented, or “artistic” research, disrupts taken-for-granted notions of methodological order and efficacy. The notions of "Tricksters and Mindful Heresy"  provide the starting point for a critical examination of the orthodoxy of method and the disruption of its taken-for-granted (dis)orderings of creative inquiry. With scholar-artists, the cluster will work together to articulate the way its work disrupts, creates, and substantively investigates the issues confronting our world today.