Creative Arts and Practice
The creative arts often has to do with the production of aesthetic narratives. It involves experimentation with artistic expressions and often results in a form of scholarship that is grounded in terrain-specific practices.
Joanna Mansbridge’s research focuses on theatre and performance practices across cultures, geographies, and media, with particular attention to site-specific and intermedial performance. Collier Nogues’s practice-based research explores innovative approaches to archival materials, both in cross-disciplinary collaborations with artists and historians in the DOKYU: Intersections of History, Creative Writing, and Arts Practices project, and in her own documental and digital poetry. Tongle Sun’s work focuses on using narratives to ‘unpack’ study abroad experiences and ‘negotiate’ identity development. Eddie Tay’s creative work consists of street photography and poetry set in Hong Kong and Singapore. His practice-based research experiments with poetic autoethnography and the role of the street photographer as a flaneur mapping out urban affects, as exemplified in his book Hong Kong as Creative Practice. Suzanne Wong’s work focuses on creative writing. She has published several short stories.