Questioning the Radical Edge

Abstract

It is not hyperbole to suggest that the contemporary character of arts-based research shares a common fidelity regarding the hybridic conflation of praxis and poiesis. While commonplace in much arts-based research, this knotting constitutes a recent and largely unexamined historical development, obfuscating a radical aporia persisting at the ‘heart’ of the arts-based project. Poised to challenge the preoccupation of artsbased research with practices of self-exploration and self-rendering, the difference between praxis and poiesis might relaunch the way in which arts-based researchers have conceptualized the function of creativity itself.