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Artistic Research and the Need for a Paradigmatic Shift in Art Research

Erlend Hovland

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.

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How should I write about my work? Notes on publishing artistic research

Annette Arlander

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.

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'Eisenhüttenstadt - Between Model and Museum.' The Ideal City as site for artistic research and intervention: On two exhibitions and symposia

Niklas Nitschke

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.

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The Digital Stage: a new online audiovisual system for acting, performance, dance and music

Stefan Winter, Fee Altmann and Julian Klein

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Digital Stage initiative emerged as a salient example of how artistic research is able to shape technology development, in order to facilitate an artistic appropriation of digital space.

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Political Imagination and Artistic Research

Pilvi Porkola

 “Political Imagination and Alternative Futures” is a multidisciplinary post-doctoral study combining methods of ethnography and artistic research. It is funded by Academy of Finland and realized at The University of Turku (2020-2024). The aim of the research is to explore how political imagination is practiced among different groups of people, including artists and activists, as well as different kinds of alternative communities in Finland.

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