Reflections

‘Reflections’ are diverse ‘op-eds’ in which artists, researchers, peer-reviewers, editors and readers express their view on what is going on in the field of artistic research. Reflections are not peer reviewed; restrictions in terms of language, length, topic or theme do not apply.

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Comments on the II Latin American Congress of Artistic Practice as Research (Santiago de Chile, 2024)

Carolina Benavente Morales

The II Latin American Congress of Artistic Practice as Research showcased the progress of this field in Latin America. Based on Robin Nelson's Practice as Research (PaR) model, designed for integrating artists into academia, I identified four key areas of focus at the Congress: the epistemic, the critical, the ontic, and the communicational. These areas revealed how the Congress presentations diverged from and inverted the PaR model, reflecting an effort to integrate artist-researchers into broader culture. The presentations demonstrated how artistic research generates knowledge and insights that challenge academic closure and open possibilities for transacademic relationality.

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Práctica Artística como Investigación

autoetnografía

corporalidad

relacionalidad

transacadémica

saber afectivo

Blackboard standing on street with 'Tierra' written on it and hand drawn pointing upwards to it

A constellated field

Eduardo Molinari

The present text is a special adaptation for the Journal for Artistic Research of the original version I wrote for the book 'Becas a la Investigación Artística / Proyecto Ballena', which was publicly presented at the Casa del Bicentenario, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 7 December 2023. The aim was to share the theoretical background and the artistic tools and methods that, from my point of view, configure and strengthen a situated artistic research. The publication also included a foreword by Valeria Roberta González (then Secretary of National Heritage) and the voices of all the Fellows. The version I share here, on the other hand, seeks to build bridges of living intercultural knowledge between artist and non-artist researchers, between artistic, cultural and social institutions and organisations, and between popular and community culture and the academic world.

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Curatorial Research – Opacity and Criticality from the Inside. Technology, Trans-Cultural Encounters and the Planetary Scale

Olga Schubert and Carmen Weisskopf & Domagoj Smoljo (!Mediengruppe Bitnik), in conversation with Felix Stalder

Felix: I think that we are approaching a consensus, particularly in the arts and humanities, that the contemporary condition requires new epistemologies, new ways of knowing, or, perhaps more importantly, new ways of learning. This has to do with the fact that the present is characterized by a multiplicity of agencies in complex, dynamic, often opaque settings. While critique remains important, of course, many of the modern methods for producing critique — distance, separation, disinterestedness, and universality — are perhaps no longer productive, even without considering the problematic historical legacies of these methods, imbricated as they are in coloniality and the destruction of nature.

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The tree of knowledge. Visualization, materialization and teaching of research in the arts

Itzel Palacios Ruiz

In this text, I explore the ecosystemic metaphor of the tree of knowledge as a tool to visualize and socialize research processes in the arts, based on my experience in the Doctorate in Arts and Design at UNAM. On one hand, while investigating the relationship between academic and artistic practices, it allowed me to create representational schemes for non-linear processes and connections, blending diverse social methodologies with sculptural practice. On the other hand, in my current pedagogical practice, the metaphor inspires students to go beyond traditional formats and frameworks of production and research.

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Árbol de conocimiento

investigación en artes

procesos

visualización

materialización

4 PREGUNTAS: Laura Olalde, "Creo que no existe investigación artística sin modulación de materia"

Laura Olalde

Laura es una artista independiente interdisciplinaria, además de educadora y comunicadora de prácticas en el cruce artístico-científico. Su trabajo en torno a los procesos de la materia viva como concepto central de la experiencia estética se nutre de procesos de colaboración con diversos grupos científicos. En este cruce arte-ciencia radica su particular visión en torno a la investigación artística.

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investigación artística

Unravelling Space: A reflection on a Walking Residency

Clementine Butler-Gallie in conversation with Rik Fisher

At the end of 2023, artist and researcher Rik Fisher participated in a Walking Residency organised by ReRouting (RR) in partnership with Co-Making Matters (CMM) initiated and curated by Viviane Tabach.

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walking residency

walking as research

walking as curatorial space

experimental pedagogy

intersectionality

participatory walks

Directions for SAR

Esa Kirkkopelto

In this Network Reflection, I am asking how SAR, as the leading international organisation in the field of artistic research, could better serve the actual need and interests of the versatile community it comprises. The following views are based on my long-term experience as a representative of the member institutions of the society, as well as on my two-year experience of board membership as an individual member. My critique does not concern the way SAR has been led so far. I am rather questioning the sustainability of the principles on which the functioning of the society has been based.

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structural development

postdoctoral research

interdisciplinarity

transdisciplinarity

higher art education

inter-academic collaboration

4 PREGUNTAS: Juan Miceli. ‘Mi hacer anida en la simultaneidad e ida y vuelta entre investigación y práctica’

Juan Miceli

¿Que entendés por investigación artística?

Creo que la investigación artística (yo propongo llamarla artécnica) es una manera de med

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Artistic research: between transformative material and cognitive dynamics

Felipe Cortés Salinas

The main purpose of this reflection is to present to the Spanish-language audience some recent changes in other fields of research that converge in the field of artistic research and which, I believe, provide fertile ground in practical and reflexive terms.

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investigación artística

The ‘True Truths’ in the Research of Artists Janet Toro and Voluspa Jarpa

Carolina Benavente Morales

In this reflection, I am interested in exploring the role of artistic research in and in response to the so-called post-truth regime. I will address this question through two proposals by Chilean artists: one of them is La memoria en el cuerpo (The Memory in the Body), by Janet Toro (1963), a montage of "performative traces" (Barría, in Toro, 29/09/2023) that revives two works from the nineties around the torture methods used by the Chilean civic-military dictatorship between 1973 and 1990; the other proposal is the Library of Non-History, by Voluspa Jarpa (1971), an installation and relational work from 2010 about declassified archives of the intervention of the United States of America (USA) in the coup d'état that originated this dictatorship, on September 11, 1973.

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investigación artística chilena

¿Que entendés por investigación artística?

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