This conversation was conducted by e-mail in April and May 2023. It took place during preparations for the exhibition Beyond Home at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (10.06-20.08 2023).

For the 14th SAR conference 2023 in Trondheim, a number of JAR editors prepared contributions and presentations discussing some of the current developments and urgencies that we have been facing. The contribution was live streamed. The following panel discussion can found at the end of the exposition.

Why is artistic research so disliked? The scorn comes from all quarters, and in particular from academia. Arguably, the most comprehensive attack is the Manifesto of Artistic Research: A Defense Against Its Advocates (Henke et al.). Without mercy, the authors of the Manifesto assault the whole field of artistic research.

The obvious way of reporting artistic research is by sharing the process and/or sharing the resulting artworks. Often you must, and sometimes you also want to, write about the research and the works as well. Many artists shun away from this “about” and try to find ways of writing next to or alongside the work, describing the context or other people’s work or ideas related to the topic of the research. This is understandable and can be useful; writing about one’s artworks can be tricky.

Introduction

A lot of sweet-talking is currently happening in the field of artistic research: after Bologna and Salzburg, the Vienna Declaration (2020)1 and the Florence Principles (2016)

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Even though Eisenhüttenstadt is not very far from Berlin, the 'first socialist city in Germany', planned and built in the 1950s, is still clearly separated, as a cultural space, from the nearby cosmopolitan city, preserving the idea of a different society in its urban layout and architecture.