This year, ELIA’s Artistic Research Platform Meeting was held online on 21 September (14:00 – 18:30 CEST) and 22 September (14:00 – 17:30 CEST). Participants took part in the interactive virtual sessions focused on the state of artistic
research now within the frames of certain disciplinary discourses.
For many years and in many countries artistic research has oriented towards the sciences and humanities. The art-science exchange has dominated the idea of research, and artistic fields have tried to relate/adopt/adapt for better or worse,
to academic traditions.
During this event we asked how different artistic disciplines and fields are dealing with the idea of research. What are the qualities, methods and formats currently used? We will look at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and ask where the difficulties lie.
In the last platform event (13 & 14 June in 2019) under the title, “Providing a Framework for Artistic Research”, participants took stock of what artistic research departments need in order to flourish within their institutions. One of
the outcomes, was the realisation that different disciplines have differing needs, that are addressed in diverse ways all over Europe. As a result of these findings, the Artistic Research Platform would like to focus this year on the state
of each disciplinary setting of artistic research, specifically and separately – and then experiment with a mapping of sorts. Artistic research, for the most part, is considered an inter- and transdisciplinary affair, so looking at separate
disciplinary settings/conditions within AR may seem like an artificial exercise. However, this could become more important with the growing sovereignty of AR: how can we describe the current AR landscape, within certain disciplinary frames and discourses?
AR has developed at different speeds, in different dimensions and changed direction as a result of various factors e.g. different financial frameworks, grant opportunities, institutional frameworks (e.g. PhD-programme or not) producing varying
qualifications and ways in which they relate to careers. Also, countries have very different histories of artistic research. The AR Platform wants to acknowledge these differences as a point of departure, and try to look at how disciplines
have been writing their own narratives about their investment (or lack thereof) in artistic research within Europe. What we can share, steal, and most of all learn from each other? This platform topic is timely, as the ELIA Biennial 2020
will look at how transdisciplinary settings shape our world.
Who was the intended audience for this event?
All professionals working in the artistic research field or related fields, and PhD candidates, from ELIA member institutions.
Participants experienced an interactive session, involving breakout discussions and a plenary conversation toward a multi-layered mapping of the international artistic research landscape.
**Come as you are (Nirvana, 1992)
Come as you are, as you were
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend
As an known enemy
Take your time, hurry up
The choice is yours, don't be late
Take a rest as a friend
As an old
Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria
Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach
As I want you to be
As a trend, as a friend
As an old
Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria
And I swear that I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun…
