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PARIP 2003 NATIONAL CONFERENCE: 11-14 September MACKLIN:
SIMON “How
does it happen that the subject makes itself into an object of possible
knowledge, through what forms of rationality, through what historical
necessity, and at what price? My question is this: How much does it cost
the subject to be able to tell the truth about itself?' Beginning with this famous Foucauldian statement, this paper is a brief description of the findings from the first stage of a three-stage research project. It deals with questions such as 'How do we and what can we know through practice-based knowledges?'& 'What is the difference between professional practice and research practice knowledges?' Focused on the nature, materiality, and creation of knowledges within performative practice-as-research, this paper investigates these questions while concentrating on the cost to the research subject of particular relationships between contemporary research practice and historical, social and political necessities. This presentation will provide a first stage model and show its usage within a PaR project. It will also provide a preliminary stage two critique of the model as a method of instigating further discussion, development and investigation of the notions of epistemology, methodology and practice developed within this project. Simon Macklin, Lecturer in Theatre Practice at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Recently completed a PaR thesis at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia called “A Debt to Pleasure' which developed a philosophical argument surrounding the concept of materiality of knowledge within the context music theatre practice.
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