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    Knowledge production through artistic research : the structure and embodiment of creative action in theatre making
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04) Van Wyk, Ockert Jacobus; Prigge-Pienaar, Samantha; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Drama.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The artistic research conducted during the respective phases of this practice-led study is based on a singular theatre-event that evolved through my collaboration with secondary school dramatic arts students, a creative-collaborator, visual art students, singers, musicians and artistic contributors. The research undertaken formulates and demonstrates my impressions, as theatre practitioner and theatre pedagogue, on the ways in which the actions, activities, contributions and lived experiences of the participants involved in the making of a collaborative theatreevent collectively determine the operation of its creative action. The intrinsic attributes of my praxis, as discovered and observed by means of the systematic inquiry and reflection of this study, hypothesise the structure of creative action to comprise a complex and non-linear interrelation of intentional, coincidental, conscious, unconscious, interactive and reiterative acts of ‘embodied cognition’. In keeping with the methodology of Artistic Research, the academic narrative utilises stylistic devices – including metaphoric titles, the insertion of images and sound clips, and typographic designs - to symbolise activities and occurrences of theatre-making that include: instances of invention; moments of insight; practice-based decisions and deviations; chance encounters; and fortuitous incidents and collaboration/s. The study suggests that the actions, incidents and events that give rise to, and evolve from, creative action are subject to, and qualified by, conceptual, sensory, corporeal and visceral conditions and intentions that are respectively foregrounded at specific times and during specific phases of theatre-making. By drawing on experiential knowledge gained from this collaborative and multi-media theatre-event, the thesis demonstrates and describes the ways in which creative action is realised and practiced through the implementation of individualised approaches and strategies that are geared towards the construction and embodiment of physical and spoken texts. In addition, the research offers insights into the ever-shifting and multifunctional role of the theatre practitioner, pedagogue and researcher as the negotiator of dissonant heterogeneous voices in a collaborative collective who are actively involved in a shared creative experience.