Issue 29 of the Journal for Artistic Research is now Online

https://jar-online.net

JAR is open-access, free to read, and to contribute.

JAR acepta envíos en español, portugués, francés, alemán e inglés. 
JAR accepte les propositions en espagnol, portugais, français, allemand et anglais.
JAR akzeptiert Einreichungen auf Spanisch, Portugiesisch, Französisch, Deutsch und Englisch.
JAR accepts submissions in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and English.
JAR aceita submissões em Espanhol, Português, Francês, Alemão e Inglês. 

The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an international, online, open-access and peer-reviewed journal that disseminates artistic research from all disciplines. JAR invites the ever-increasing number of artistic researchers to develop what, for the sciences and humanities, are standard academic publication procedures. It serves as a meeting point of diverse practices and methodologies in a field that has become a worldwide movement with many local activities.

Issue 29 contains 6 peer-reviewed contributions:

Hilde Hovland Honerud and Jon Hovland Honerud, explore the possibilities of photography as a communicative medium in their exposition ‘Fractured Photography.’ Addressing the questions raised by images of ‘people in distress’ they approach such issues as media imagery and image fatigue, photography of ‘the other’, the privileged position of the photographer, significant encounters, and reciprocity. [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1816714]

In her exposition ‘Building upon Ruins – Interweaving Metaphors,’ Joanna Magierecka presents interweaving as a compositional technique and dramaturgical strategy used in three installations. The installations, part of a series called Ruins, interweave different and diverging fragments, allowing audience members to create their own performance dramaturgy and create an understanding of others and their experience. In this process Magierecka considers the potential for creating shared, collective stories. [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1154089]

In ‘On the Indeterminate Training Technologies of a Reconstructed Bauhaus Choreographer. A Research Practice Between Speculative Historiography, Architectural Invention and Performative Co-enactment’, Thomas Pearce proposes a method of artistic research that uses (and disobediently misuses) techniques of reconstruction as a mode of performative, artistic, and architectural invention. Describing a collaboration between performance artists and architectural researchers, the exposition reconstructs the works of fictional Bauhaus choreographer and gymnastics teacher Jakob Klenke (1874–1941).[https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1159573]

Adolfo Ruiz and Tony Rabesca’s ‘Story in motion: creative collaborations on Tłı̨chǫ lands’ describes a creative collaboration in the self-governed Tłı̨chǫ region of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Learning and exchanging knowledge with elders and youth from the region, the collaborators engaged with indigenous research methods and participatory experiences in a process by which regional oral history was visualised and translated into animation. [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1311963]

Merja Ryöppy’s exposition, ‘Object theatre exercises unfolding human-object relations in participatory design processes,’ presents practical object theatre exercises and investigates how these exercises may enhance work withreadymade objects in participatory design projects. The exposition showcases three object theatre exercises which reveal the potential of physical object interaction, inviting unexpected perspectives on human-object relations, and exposing experienced object qualities. [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.826938]

In ‘Sounding Belfast During Covid-19: Lockdown 1 and 2’ Georgios Varoutsos presents a sonic-journalistic enquiry into the effects of Government imposed lockdowns on urban space. Using material gathered in March and October 2020 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Varoutsos creates soundscape compositions distributed on online platforms such as soundmaps (soundwalk apps or browser maps). He explores how these works reveal new sonic relationships between natural and urbanised sounds in the built environment, while revising our understanding of the pandemic. [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1712696]

Keywords include:  

Choreography, digital fabrication, distress, dramaturgy, historiography, indeterminacy, interweaving, oral history,participatory design, photography, readymade objects, soundwalking and urban space.

Take a look at JAR29 and read the editorial by Michael Schwab here.

The Network is a non-peer-reviewed space on the JAR website for discussion, reviews and opinion pieces relevant to artistic research and JAR’s community. It features reflections and book reviews.

For issue 29 we want to draw attention to Journal for Artistic Research - Urgencies a hybrid exposition that brings together contributions from members of the JAR Editorial Board. This was initially presented at the recent SAR conference too early / too late hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.

JAR provides a digital platform where multiple methods, media and articulations can function together to generate insights into artistic research endeavours. In its peer-reviewed section, it seeks to promote ‘expositions,’ which aim to engage practice and demonstrate research. JAR views artistic research as an evolving field where research and art are positioned as mutually influential. If you are considering submitting something to the journal, be sure to look at our guidelines. The next deadline for JAR 33 (second issue of 2024) is the 31st of September 2023.

JAR works with an international editorial board and a large panel of peer-reviewers.

Editor in Chief: Michael Schwab
Managing Editor: Barnaby Drabble
Peer Review Editor: Julian Klein
Editorial Board: Annette Arlander, Carolina Benavente, Danny Butt, Yara Guasque, Siham Issami, Paul Landon, Manuel Ángel Macía, Gabriel Menotti, Helly Minarti, Barbara Lüneburg, Jesús Fernando Monreal Ramírez, Mareli Stolp, Reiko Yamada and Mariela Yeregui.

Interns: Costanza Tagliaferri

Associate Editors: Elisa Noronha

Spanish Panel: Mariela Yeregui, Manuel Ángel Macía, Carolina Benavente, Yara Guasque and Jesús Fernando Monreal Ramírez

Portuguese Panel: Yara Guasque, Manuel Ángel Macía, Mariela Yeregui, Carolina Benavente and Gabriel Menotti

German Panel: Michael Schwab, Barbara Lüneburg, Barnaby Drabble and Julian Klein

French Panel: Carolina Benavente, Siham Issami and Paul Landon

JAR is published by the Society for Artistic Research (SAR), an independent, non-profit association. You can support JAR by becoming an individual or institutional member of SAR. For updates on our activities, join our mailing list.