My Procrastinated Degree Project : A Practice-Led Investigation through Procrastination, Embodied Experience, and Writing as Practice

This dissertation explores writing as a method within artistic research, with a focus on how procrastinating, voice, and authorship operate in practice-led inquiry. Originating in a research interest in boredom as a site of resistance, the project develops through procrastinating, personal reflection, theoretical engagement, and performative experimentation. The dissertation draws on the work of scholars and practitioners such as Lauren Fournier and Roland Barthes, to examine how the dismantling of conventional authorship can function as a generative critical strategy. Rather than presenting a singular narrative or conclusive argument, the dissertation operates through fragmentation, affect, and layered registers, including theoretical analysis, personal voice, and performative reflection. It positions the text not as a linear academic document, but as an open-ended site for encounter and co-presence. The work contributes to the discourse on artistic research by proposing that vulnerability and disorientation can constitute valid methodological tools in the pursuit of knowledge.