Welcome to the Centre for Practice-Led Research in the Arts

The Centre for Practice-Led Research in the Arts (CePRA) is based in the Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications at the University of Leeds. It brings together scholars from across the arts disciplines whose research employs practice-led methodologies.

Practice-led research is by no means confined to the arts, but the Centre responds to a particular need within the arts disciplines to debate the framing, articulation and documentation of practice-led research methods. CePRA provides a forum for leading international academics in music, performance, design, communications and the visual arts to explore these issues within and across disciplines, and in interdisciplinary contexts. It develops younger researchers through training and networking opportunities for students on the range of practice-led research degrees offered within the Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications.

Centre for Practice-led Research in the Arts (CePRA) Forum 2010 Monday, 13th December 2010

Venue: Foyer, Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music (11am - 3pm with lunch)

CePRA Forum is a networking event for open discussion of practice-led research in the Arts. Please come along, meet students and staff from around the Faculty and join in with the discussions.
Students will be invited (but not required) to share work in progress or suggest ideas for projects in the afternoon session.
If you are interested in coming along, please contact e.j.stefani@leeds.ac.uk by 1st December 2010 to register for lunch. If you would like to present examples of your practice-led research, or lead a discussion topic of your choice, please contact us and we will reserve a 15 minute slot for you.

11am       Tea/coffee and introductions
11.30am    Opening discussion, for example: 'Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts: Why Bother?'
12.30pm    Buffet Lunch
1.30pm     Informal presentations of work in progress / discussion themes…
Some suggestions for discussion:
// How do we document practice?
// How do academic contexts of practice led research affect how it is pursued and evaluated?
 // Links between (Practice-led) research-led and teaching // Similarities and differences in practice led research in ‘live’ media (music, theatre, dance, performance) and ‘recording’ media (film, TV, video) // Improvisation and live performance // Are there common techniques, technologies, venues, terminology and audiences that could be shared between disciplines?

The Centre for Practic-Led Research in the Arts is now an official partner of theEuropean Artistic Research Network.

EARN was established to share and exchange knowledge and experience in artistic research; foster mobility, exchange and dialogue among art researchers; promote wider dissemination of artistic research; and enable global connectivity and exchange for artistic research.

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