The Daisy Chain Model’ an enunciative modality: epistemic mapping as a mode of performative documentation and dissemination of practice as research

In this paper I consider the ways in which questions, problems, artistic experiments and ‘feedback loops’ work in relation to performance process and the ways in which the practitioner navigates and generates knowledgess/discourses and epistemologies in relation to dissemination and institutional expectations. In sharing my development of the Daisy Chain Model as an epistemic approach to mapping and marshalling PaR activity, I will start to consider the ways in which documentation and dissemination situates practice as research within the wider stratosphere of research. I will define and demonstrate the ways in which the ‘Daisy Chain Model’ can be applied as a strategy to marshal and map the symbiotic relationship between PaR and other research activity. I have devised the ‘Daisy Chain Model’ by developing Trimingham’s, ‘Spiral Model’ (Trimingham 2002), to suit my own particular PaR needs. Through explicating the nature of the ‘Daisy Chain Model’ as a model for marshalling, mapping, documenting and reflecting upon PaR I intend to discuss how this might be seen to impact upon the perceived value of the work as research and as performance within the context of Doctoral study in the UK. I will also unfold the ways in which such models can be employed in order to demonstrate the necessary rigour that is an unavoidable aspect of such a context for PaR. I hope to open up a discourse that exposes and challenges the hierarchies of performance as research in HE within the UK context.