Practice-based research: multimodal explorations through poetry and painting
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Sigrid Norris
Sigrid Norris is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Multimodal Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. She is the author of Analyzing Multimodal Interaction: A Methodological Framework (2004), rosarot und Schwarz. Gedichte (2008), and Identity in (Inter) action: Introducing Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis (2011), co-editor of Discourse in action: Introducing mediated discourse analysis (2005) and editor of Multimodality and Practice: Investigating Theory-in-Practice-through-Method (2011). Sigrid’s primary research interests are the study of identity and the development of methodological and theoretical through in regards to multimodality.
Abstract
In this article, I investigate the practice-based research project called the poetry-to-painting project that the independent German artist, Andrea Brandt, who has also been a participant in two of my ethnographic studies on identity production, and I are involved in.
Divorce: A visual essay (Norris and Brandt, 2011) illustrates Andrea’s early to current emotive stages that she links to the lifechanging event, her divorce. Taking this project as my example, I develop some theoretical thoughts and demonstrate how a practicebased project embeds and produces theoretical thought. In order to establish this theoretical thinking, I lean on mediated discourse theory (Scollon, 1998, 2001) and multimodal (inter)action analysis (Norris, 2004, 2011a).
Through this project, the notion of modes is revisited, as is the notion of practice and nexus of practice as these pertain to the practice-based research project. Throughout the article, I show that practice-based research may gain by taking a multimodal mediated approach. This approach fosters a new way of thinking and thereby fosters the development of knowledge through practice-based research.
About the author
Sigrid Norris is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Multimodal Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. She is the author of Analyzing Multimodal Interaction: A Methodological Framework (2004), rosarot und Schwarz. Gedichte (2008), and Identity in (Inter) action: Introducing Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis (2011), co-editor of Discourse in action: Introducing mediated discourse analysis (2005) and editor of Multimodality and Practice: Investigating Theory-in-Practice-through-Method (2011). Sigrid’s primary research interests are the study of identity and the development of methodological and theoretical through in regards to multimodality.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editor’s introduction
- Functions of three open-palm hand gestures
- Divorce: a visual essay
- Practice-based research: multimodal explorations through poetry and painting
- Double exposure: a critical study of preservice teachers’ multimodal public service announcements
- Can art (powerpoint) lead to social change? a mediated multimodal inquiry
- The cinematic art of teaching university mathematics: chalk talk as embodied practice
Articles in the same Issue
- Editor’s introduction
- Functions of three open-palm hand gestures
- Divorce: a visual essay
- Practice-based research: multimodal explorations through poetry and painting
- Double exposure: a critical study of preservice teachers’ multimodal public service announcements
- Can art (powerpoint) lead to social change? a mediated multimodal inquiry
- The cinematic art of teaching university mathematics: chalk talk as embodied practice
