Abstract
Showcasing plays a fundamental role in arts education programmes. This paper presents an approach to research scenarios which explore ‘event-centred’ projects. Drawing on arts-based methodologies and research projects, this approach could be extended to the study of seasonal rituals, festivals and other types of organisational settings in which creative work culminates in some type of public display. This paper defines the key features of this method, which draw on Paul Willis’ concept of ‘grounded aesthetics’ and Sarah Pink’s work on the sensorial and embodied experience. I discuss the experimentation with various digital media and documentation strategies which adopt a participatory and collaborative perspective. I focus on how the sensorial, multimodal and collaborative approaches to ethnography are used within event-centred research projects which complement more ‘traditional’ ethnographic approaches. Finally, this paper offers a methodological contribution regarding how to unpack the ‘grounded aesthetics’ of specific contexts and communities.
Highlights
Showcasing plays a fundamental role in arts education programmes
Drawing on arts-based methodologies and research projects, this approach could be extended to the study of seasonal rituals, festivals and other types of organisational settings in which creative work culminates in some type of public display
The dilemma that I faced during fieldwork was in exploring participants’ diverse cultural values and affective responses to performing at live music events
Summary
Showcasing plays a fundamental role in arts education programmes. Sensorial, multimodal and collaborative approaches to ethnography have been well documented. This paper explores a specific approach which engages with grounded aesthetics, the embodied experience and the resulting opportunities for collaborative and participatory analysis. My intention was to explore participants’ displays of grounded aesthetics through performing as a way of critically judging experiences that are shared with others as a form of social practice.
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