Following on from the previous one, this lecture looked at criticisms of Frayling: What sort of research is Frayling himself conducting?
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Frayling underplays and to some extent misrepresents 'action research' - the type of research that sits most readily with the artwork that speaks for itself.
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' Frayling actively constructs the debate - sets down the terms and performs it in to existence 'The Rhetoric of Reseach' (Biggs, 2002)
- Following Stuart Hall's Constructivism, Biggs suggests that Frayling constructs the concept as opposed to describing it.
- He brings the categories of 'in', 'through' and 'for' in to existence.
It is work arising out of Frayling's category of Research For art and design that come in for so much criticism (largely by the design community).
-the work itself can be the method
We lastly briefly looked at Griselda Pollock - artist, sociologist, feminist theorist -
Clash between knowledge and performance
