Orientating voices in memories and spaces — Well I never…?

Abstract

This paper is a dialogue between the artist and the analyst in the examination of a digital video art work as a piece of practice as research. The paper identifies and addresses the significant research questions that have arisen out of precisely such a dialogue about work in progress. Rather than focusing on the completed installation as a piece of research, this paper emphasises the artistic practice as experience and offers a concurrent academic debate, which complements the art work rather than substitute it as a research outcome. By embracing such plurality inherent in artistic practice as research, this article examines questions of authenticity of voice, narrative abstraction and interpretation and the effect low budget constraints have on film practice. Rather than offering certain conclusions, this paper is to be one in a series, discussing the research practice at various points in the artistic process.