Call for Papers: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice

Special issue of the journal Zetesis: research generated by curiosity

The Zetesis journal is preparing a special issue that focuses on Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice. This issue is part of the Creator Doctus project and will appear in April 2021.

This project is innovative in four distinct ways:

• Focus on the development of innovative artistic research practices and approaches to research in view of the recent work done in this area in countries such as the UK, Norway and Australia where artistic research is well established;
• Critically analyse the manipulation of materials, their manifestation and performativity in order to address the arts as forms of radical matter;
• Explore collaboration as a methodology based on shared experience that presents us with adynamic and responsive relationship between partners towards the creation of a series of unique partnerships within each country that explore the potential of such projects within specific and local settings;
• Enable those partners in the consortium with little or no experience of 3rd level artistic research methods and methodologies to inculcate appropriate strategies locally in their institutions and partner organisations.

Respondents to the call are invited to attend to one of the following themes:

Exquisite Methods

This theme will explore recent and current thinking on artistic research and discuss the data collated with regard to exemplars of best practice.

Exquisite Mattering

This theme will explore the tension created between practical production and written submission and the importance of ‘matter’ and ‘mattering’ which arguably leads us to an innovative reimagining of what constitutes the idea of the ‘thesis’.

Exquisite Collisions

This theme will explore the importance of disciplinary specificity and inter/trans/cross-disciplinarity within the context of current ecologies of difference and the impact of intersectional identity forming practices.

Exquisite Collaborations

Using a range of collaborative partnerships as case studies of cultural organisations that have significant impact on the city, this theme will explore the dynamic relationship inherent in collaborative projects and the ethical implications of such forms of engagement where the partners (the artist, institution and organisation or societal partner) have various degrees of investment in the developing research project.

Exquisite Learning

This theme will explore the impact that the shifts in thinking about artistic research have had on learning and teaching, the role of the artist within academic and research contexts. It will consider the potential new strategies for engagement.

Exquisite Environments

This theme will explore the importance of the development of a strong research culture and its relationship to all levels of study - consider the development of the spaces for the delivery of artistic courses. – consider the shifts in the design of educational environments and the impact that the physical environment has on the nature of the production of art and the learning experience.

Exquisite Dissemination

This theme will explore the multi-modes of dissemination available to artistic researchers within contemporary culture and across a wide range of formal and informal, material and virtual platforms.

You are asked to react to the call with an outline of max. 1.000 words before 4 January 2021.

Please read the whole call here. 

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