What is arts-based research? – Reverie
Ways of analysing: From Reverie to Reality
Lesley Duxbury
Duxbury, L (2009) ‘Ways of analysing: From Reverie to Reality’. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/1914056/Ways_of_Analysing_From_Reverie_to_Reality (Accessed at: 8th December 2021)
- ‘By not knowing I become interested in things’
- ‘Reverie is the perfect word to describe the origins of personal poetic imager and memories, which are so often the basis for research through creative practice.’
- ‘The dreamer continues to be present and aware of his dreaming.’ (Bachelard, 1960, p.150)
- ‘Reverie is at once an active and passive state of being in which we allow ourselves to acquiesce to a flow of ideas and associations while remaining alert and receptive.’
- ‘Using imagination we are able to formulate questions around the feelings or hunches generated by reverie.’
- ‘Artist-researchers who engage with such a reflective practice inhabit a space of possibility in which there is no distinction between the activities of making and those of thinking.’
- ‘Art always produces new knowledge especially in the ways that it advances its own particular field.’
- ‘What was realised in the visual work, experiential or embodied knowledge, I could not easily find words for’
- ‘Works of art offer ways of imagining and encountering the world without conclusion. They emanate from a position of not-knowing, travers a realm of uncertainty and present ambiguities and possibilities to engage a viewer into a process of speculation and interpretation.’
- ‘For an audience, ‘Engage with private reverie to make sense of a public reality.’’