Prologue by Michael Schwab. Preamble by Jacqueline Taylor. Enact I: De/Constructing Spaces and Re/Locating Borders. Chapter 1: A Space of Exchange: Exploring mess, failure and play as method by Sally Bailey. Chapter 2: Weaving/writing/thinking: Visualising research and methodology as al-Sadu by Khulod Al-Bugami. Chapter 3: A Field of Possibilities by Jane Bennet, Belinda Mitchell and Yonat Nitzan-Green. Chapter 4: Performing Para-Dox: Gestures of (non)representation by Jacqueline Taylor. Interlude: The Appearance of the More by Emma Cocker and Nicole Wendel. Redact II: In-between-ness and the (Blurred) Edges of the Discipline. Chapter 5: In-between the Auditory and the Visual: Transposition in painting-based-research-practice by Harriet Carter. Chapter 6: The Performance Philosophy dRAFT of the Con-temporary by Sylvia Solakidi. Chapter 7: Generative Porosities of Sound/Image/Body/Text by Ana Gabrielle Rutter. Chapter 8: Slippage(s): Mess, in-between-ness and other spaces in art(s) research by Jacqueline Taylor. Interlude: The Overcoat: On refusal in academia by Maria Fusco. Diffract III: The Boundaries of Academia and the Academic. Chapter 9: Ill-Disciplined: Creative, neurodivergent intervention and leadership in Higher Education-A manifesto by Kai Syng Tan. Chapter 10: Beyond Practice & Back Again: Maintaining artistic identity in academia by Lorraine Smith. Chapter 11: Transdisciplinary Research Practices as Praxis by Don Parker. Epilogue by Jacqueline Taylor. Researching that one 'big region of strangeness' that makes us human by Brad Haseman.