Discourses on Research: Where is the Site of Artistic Researches?

Abstract

Research has been categorized in various paradigms. Traditionally, it is divided into two major groups: quantitative and qualitative. According to this qualification, artistic research is considered qualitative. Unfortunately, many textbooks about qualitative research methodology and methods that mostly written by those from humanities or social sciences, rarely involve or speak about artistic research as a (new) part of qualitative approaches. Artistic research or practice-led-research does not seem to exist in many dictionaries of qualitative research. This paper aims to describe the discourses on research in general, and look for the answer for this issue: Where is the place of artistic research in the research-world?