Beyond Borders

Dr Jacqueline Taylor is an artist, researcher, writer and educator. She is currently co-director of the Material Encounters research cluster (Birmingham Institute of Creative Arts) and Director of Doctoral Education (Faculty of Arts, Design and Media) at Birmingham City University, UK. Jacqueline has over a decade of leadership experience in researcher education including as a PhD supervisor, examiner and invited teaching and consultancy around the world, where she specialises in art research and methodologies. She exhibits her art practice internationally, and presents and performs her research globally, often in alternative ‘hybrid’ academic forms which expand the parameters of the written text. Jacqueline has been invited to give keynote and plenary talks at high profile events such as ‘Doing the Doctorate Differently - Creative Methodologies/Pedagogies’ (UK Council for Graduate Education, 2018). She has published extensively on doctoral education and her parallel research interest on language and art, most recently with the chapter ‘Painterly Poetics and Difference in the Making’ due to be published in Topologies of Sexual Difference with SUNY Press in early 2024.

Beyond Borders is an important “provocation and invitation to challenge fixed categories and conceptions of what constitutes creative arts research” The essays are a timely reminder of how the emergent and improvisatory approaches of artistic research allow “new syntheses of knowledge across borders of disciplines.” At the core of such approaches lies the alternative logic of embodied and experiential practice.-Estelle Barrett, Honorary Professorial Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of MelbourneBeyond Borders offers a rich compendium of essays by and for artists that brings arts research alive, offering the reader multiple perspectives on this “thing” called artistic research. It adopts the conceptual framework of counter-cartography to provide a springboard for artists to interrogate and articulate their own art as research.-Dr Barbara Bolt, Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.

• Prologue by Michael Schwab. Preamble by Jacqueline Taylor. Enact I: De/Constructing Spaces and Re/Locating Borders. Chapter 1: A Space of Exchange: Exploring mess, failure and play as method by Sally Bailey. Chapter 2: Weaving/writing/thinking: Visualising research and methodology as al-Sadu by Khulod Al-Bugami. Chapter 3: A Field of Possibilities by Jane Bennet, Belinda Mitchell and Yonat Nitzan-Green. Chapter 4: Performing Para-Dox: Gestures of (non)representation by Jacqueline Taylor. Interlude: The Appearance of the More by Emma Cocker and Nicole Wendel. Redact II: In-between-ness and the (Blurred) Edges of the Discipline. Chapter 5: In-between the Auditory and the Visual: Transposition in painting-based-research-practice by Harriet Carter. Chapter 6: The Performance Philosophy dRAFT of the Con-temporary by Sylvia Solakidi. Chapter 7: Generative Porosities of Sound/Image/Body/Text by Ana Gabrielle Rutter. Chapter 8: Slippage(s): Mess, in-between-ness and other spaces in art(s) research by Jacqueline Taylor. Interlude: The Overcoat: On refusal in academia by Maria Fusco. Diffract III: The Boundaries of Academia and the Academic. Chapter 9: Ill-Disciplined: Creative, neurodivergent intervention and leadership in Higher Education—A manifesto by Kai Syng Tan. Chapter 10: Beyond Practice & Back Again: Maintaining artistic identity in academia by Lorraine Smith. Chapter 11: Transdisciplinary Research Practices as Praxis by Don Parker. Epilogue by Jacqueline Taylor. Researching that one 'big region of strangeness' that makes us human by Brad Haseman.