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Unislanding Artistic Research: A Decolonial Dialogue (digital pamphlet)

Central to the discipline of Island studies are questions concerning difference, relation, hierarchy, hybridisation and disciplinary experimentation. Emerging out of this discourse, the concept of ‘archipelagic thinking’ is a postcolonial assemblage framework for thinking beyond the idea of the island as an isolated entity. It is, what Barbadian poet Kamau Braithwaite has called, a technique for ‘Unislanding’.

During the ELIA Artistic Research Platform (Online) Meeting 2020: “Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be…” Mapping the disciplinary state(s) of Artistic Research, attendees explored the framework of ‘archipelagic thinking’, as a heuristic device to provoke dialogue around the disciplinary status of artistic research.

Using the digital platform Padlet over two days, participants mapped the disciplinary fields of Circus, Fine Art, Choreography, Literature, Architecture, Theatre, Film, Applied Arts, Design and Artistic Research Study. As each iteration of the methodology unfolded, it connected with other disciplinary islands around common problems and challenges.

This digital pamphlet is the outcome of this meeting and has been produced by the Working Group for Artistic Research.

Read the pamphlet here>

 

Acknowledgements 

  • Andrea B. Braidt, University of Vienna, Department for Theater, Film and Media Studies 
  • Stephen Broad, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 
  • Florian Dombois, Zurich University of the Arts
  • Michaela Glanz, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
  • Glenn Loughran, TU Dublin, School of Creative Arts
  • Gesa Marten, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • Jørn Mortensen, School of Art, Design and Media, Kristiania University College
  • Anne-Helen Mydland, University of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design
  • Claus Peder Pedersen, Aarhus School of Architecture 
  • Ellen Røed, Stockholm University of the Arts 
  • Geir Strøm, Diku, The Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education
  • Maria Topolčanska, Academy of Fine Arts Prague
  • Veerle Van der Sluys, LUCA School of Arts

 

Design: Glenn Loughran
Copy-editing: Reitz Ink

A special thanks goes to all participants of the Artistic Research Platform Meeting 2020, whose contributions to the online conversations were key in the creation of this pamphlet.

 

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