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A Metaphorical Methodology: Embracing Complexity in Doctoral Artistic Research (2025)

Kevin Skelton

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This exposition invites you to reflect on the various things you do in your doctoral artistic research and to consider how these activities might form an interconnected system — a methodology. In a guided tour of words, images, and visits to my garden, I reconsider several research models I encountered as a PhD student investigating transdisciplinary performing practices. However, my primary aim is to carve out a pathway — from model to metaphor — one that offers a viable means of seeing your doctoral project existing within a terrain of complexity rather than utter chaos. Throughout the exposition I employ metaphors inspired not only by my artistic work, but also by my garden in Abruzzo, where I lived throughout my PhD studies. To fully discover Abruzzo, it is necessary to slow down — even allow yourself to get bored — before inevitably being revitalized and inspired by its natural beauty and ever-welcoming ambiance. I hope you will embrace this exposition’s journey. Permit yourself to be a rural-Italian wanderer, enjoy the breaks, and take extra ones so you can also enjoy an espresso or glass of Montepulciano d’Abruzzo. Download Accessible PDF
typeresearch exposition
keywordsartistic research, methods, methodology, singing, dance, breathing, metaphor, place
date29/12/2025
published29/12/2025
last modified29/12/2025
statuspublished
affiliationZürcher Hochschule der Künste
copyrightKevin Skelton
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2951879/3702271
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.2951879
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue37. 37
external linkwww.kevinskelton.com


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