Estelle Barrett is Associate Professor and Honours Convenor in the School of Communications and Creative Arts at Deakin University, where she teaches Art Theory & Media & Communication. Barbara Bolt is Senior Lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts Graduate School, University of Melbourne. she is the author of 'Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image' (IBT, 2004). Both have forthcoming books in the Contemporary Thinkers Reframed series (IB Tauris), Estelle Barrett: 'Kristeva Reframed' and Barbara Bolt: 'Heidegger Reframed'.

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Acknowledgements
Foreword

Introduction
Chapter 1 Interest: The Ethics of Invention - Paul Carter
Chapter 2 The Magic is in Handling - Barbara Bolt
Chapter 3 History Documents, Arts Reveals: Creative Writing as Research - Gaylene Perry
Chapter 4 Cutting Choreography: Back and Forth Between 12 Stages and 27 Seconds - Dianne Reid
Chapter 5 "Silent" Speech - Annette Iggulden
Chapter 6 'Chamber': Experiencing Masculine Identity Through Dance Improvisation - Shaun McLeod
Chapter 7 Rhizome/MyZone: A Case Study in Studio-based Dance Research - Kim Vincs
Chapter 8 A Correspondence Between Practices - Stephen Goddard
Chapter 9 Creating New Stories For Praxis: Navigations, Narrations, Neonarratives - Robyn Stewart
Chapter 10 Foucault's 'What is An Author': Towards a Critical Discourse of Practice as Research - Estelle Barrett
Chapter 11 Rupture and Recognition: Identifying The Performative Research Paradigm -Brad Haseman
Chapter 12 The Exegesis as Meme - Estelle Barrett
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References
Contributors
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