Issue 30 of the Journal for Artistic Research is now Online

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

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 30 contains 5 peer-reviewed contributions:

In their exposition, ‘Critical Confabulations - Corresponding Practices and Mappings,’ Jim Harold and Alex Hale employ digital datasets alongside the acts of field walking, photography, drawing and poetry, to analyse archaeological remains on the hills bordering Kilmartin Glen in western Scotland. In their research they seek to draw art and archaeological practices into dialogue with one another in order to assert the importance of recording experiences and random acts as a part of field research and, thereby, re-vivifying and re-wilding encounters with landscape. [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1251029]

Marke?ta Kinterova?’s ‘We Are Public Space: Bodies and Minds in Post-pandemic Cities’ explores changes in urban public space on several levels. Firstly, observing the trend of newly developed privately owned public spaces (POPS), which show how corporations define public space as a space for consumers, rather than citizens. Secondly, using the format of performative lecture walks to accentuate subjective experiences focusing on the body in public space. Finally, describing what cities looked like during the pandemic and considering whether these empty scenes might be a model for the future. [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1401080]

In his autoethnographic exposition, ‘The Plane of Cicadas: On the Possibility of Making Kin through Musicking’, musician Mathew Klotz shares a short series of musicking encounters aimed at making kin in a rainforest-covered mountain on unceded Djiru Country on the east coast of Australia. Each of these consists of a short hike and a discrete musical encounter between himself, his saxophone and local subjectivities. [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1508482]

In their Spanish language exposition ‘La resistencia de las piedras’, artists Alejandra Reyero and Maia Navas, turn to medial - material practices of countermemory, to address historical and contemporary technologies of control and the colonial legacy that operates still under the motto of care, the legality of persecution and the abuse of power. The exposition juxtaposes two spaces: Napalpí (Chaco, Argentina, site of the 1924 Napalpí massacre) and Barrio Gran Toba (Chaco, Argentina, where descendants of qom indigenous communities were monitored by a police drone during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020). [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1735361]

In ‘Heterotopia of the Practice Room: Casting and Breaking the Illusion of Tristan Murail’s Tellur for solo guitar,’ Maarten Stragier offers the first performance-led study of Murail’s extraordinary solo guitar work Tellur. Using Lydia Goehr’s historical study of the work-concept as a point of orientation, he explores the functioning of Werktreue in Tellur and demonstrates how he, as a performer, navigates a musical reality that simultaneously reflects and contests a tradition of classical music performance, built around the regulative work-concept. [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1354542]

Keywords include:  
Archaeology, archive, decoloniality, heterotopia, interdisciplinarity, making kin, mapping, montage, musicking, privately owned public space (POPS), psychogeography, re-wilding and Werktreue.

Take a look at JAR30 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 30 the growing collection of contributions is joined by two new ‘Reflections’:

What do you do when you do what you do?  - the act of researching by Seçil Yersel & Mika Hannula

[https://doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0064]

Las ‘verdades verdaderas’ en las investigaciones de las artistas Janet Toro y Voluspa Jarpa by Carolina Benavente Morales

[https://doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0063]

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 34 (last issue of 2024) is the 31st of January 2024.

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, Barbara Lüneburg, Manuel Ángel Macía, Gabriel Menotti, Helly Minarti, Lauren O’Neal, Mareli Stolp, Reiko Yamada and Mariela Yeregui.

Interns: Veronica Laminarca, Joaquín Macedo, Clare Murray, Molly Pardoe and Costanza Tagliaferri.

Associate Editors: Elisa Noronha

Spanish Panel: Mariela Yeregui, Manuel Ángel Macía, Carolina Benavente and Yara Guasque

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

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