Newsletter Oktober 2024

Introducing the new newsletter concept

Following the summer break SAR is commencing the autumn with a new newsletter format. This follows the society’s decision to focus on strengthening our communications, both internally and externally, which means that you will now receive a monthly newsletter from us. We are very excited about this new initiative and welcome feedback on this from all our SAR members.

The new Board and appointment of the Communication Officer

Following the elections in the spring, the new Board had its first face-to-face meeting in Den Haag on the 16^th and 17^th September, where we also welcomed our newly appointed Communications Officer - Linnea Langfjord Kristensen.

We want to thank our members for the big turnout for the elections and appreciate everyone’s participation. Below you will find full introductions to the current board.

Executive Board of SAR (2024 – 2026):

Florian Schneider
President, Trondheim, Norway (2022-2026)

Michaela Glanz
Treasurer/First Vice President, Vienna, Austria (2024-2028)

Angela Bartram
Secretary/Second Vice President, Derby, UK (2024-2026)

Blanka Chládková
Brno, The Czech Republic (2022-2026)

Jan Schacher
Helsinki, Finland (2024-2028)

Johannes Kretz
Vienna, Austria (2024-2028)

Paulo Luís Almeida
Porto Portugal (2024-2028)

16^th SAR Conference 2025, Porto - submission deadline 15th October

The deadline for submitting proposals for presentations of artistic research projects at the 2025 conference in Porto (Society for Artistic Research & i2ADS – University of Porto) is approaching. To submit a proposal or learn more about application guidelines, please click here.

We encourage original and experimental contributions from both individuals and collectives addressing this years’ theme Resonance. The past decade witnessed the appearance of new debating spaces within artistic research. At a time when art and culture, local and global policies and events are haunted by societal challenges as vast as they are unpredictable, what can artistic researchers offer in response to these concerns? How can artistic research resonate beyond its specific contexts and disciplinary borders? Resonance is a prompt to address the transformative nature of artistic research as a connective element that evokes a response and qualifies our experiences as meaningful, but can also be understood as a critical tool characterised by reciprocity and mutual transformation.

Transferable, transversal, transformative?

- Artistic research and the skills acquired through it.

ShotByMeesterwerk

On 17 September SAR, together with ELIA and WAAG, hosted a workshop during Creative Skills Week in Amsterdam, focusing on the potential for transferring and exchanging the skills and competences acquired in doctoral programmes in artistic research to areas beyond higher art education or the art markets. This was a fruitful and exciting discussion about topics such as creative confidence and collaboration across creative disciplines, conceptual, critical and non-linear thinking to support interactions in creative ecosystems and narrative strategies and decision-making in the age of multiple crises and complexity. SAR focuses on promoting practices of artistic research as undertaken both in and outside academic institutions and this workshop was one of many ways we facilitate co-operation and communication on artistic research practices throughout the year.

The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)

SAR is excited to share with the community that our Research Catalogue (RC) is part of the COST Action Artistic Intelligence - Responsiveness, Accessibility, Responsibility, Equity. COST is a funding organisation for the creation of research networks, that offer an open space for collaboration among scientists across Europe (and beyond) and thereby give impetus to research advancements and innovation.

Central to the Action’s approach is the concept of Artistic Intelligence, which offers an open, holistic framework to address the complexities of art, culture, and creativity by exploring current technological possibilities for accessing, linking and validating practice-based research initiatives within a common framework of artistic intelligence. It does so by working with corpuses of material — specifically, SAR’s Research Catalogue (RC). The alignment — between the source material, the approaches this approach will foster, and the reference frameworks that emerge — constitutes Artistic Intelligence.

Amongst other capacity-related objectives, the COST Action intends to extend and expand existing capacities, such as the Research Catalogue, to overcome technological and epistemological barriers, and to promote open accessibility, equitable approaches, cultural and disciplinary responsiveness, and societal responsibility.

As the Action progresses over the next 4 years, we will make sure to keep our community updated in the newsletters. In the meantime, you can read more about it here

Annual Prize for Best RC Exposition

 

2023 Prize Winner, Thomas Pearce

In case you have not had the chance to see the winning expositions of 2023 yet, we encourage you to spend a bit of your day visiting these exceptional expositions. We were very impressed with the submissions, and the diversity and quality of the nominated expositions display innovative and experimental formats of publication.

1st. Place: Thomas Pearce

The jury was impressed by the exposition “On the Indeterminate Training Technologies of a Reconstructed Bauhaus Choreographer. A Research Practice Between Speculative Histography, Architectural Invention, and Performative Co-enactment” that is multi-layered and complex. It re-enacts a series of performance-based events that reconstructs the life of a fictional choreographer, in five instances. A fundamental benefit is interdisciplinarity, in addition to the innovative and precise solution to the form of exposition, the interdisciplinary nature, the author’s dialogue with his own solution and the author’s discussion of the ethical limits of the research subject should also be appreciated.

2nd. Place: Emma Cocker, Andrea Coyotzi Borja, Cordula Daus, Lena Séraphin, Vidha Saumya

The exposition “TEXTORIUM: Collaborative Writing-Reading with/in Public Space” represents collaborative score-based approaches to live, situated writing and reading practices. Overall, the exposition organises a complex web of relationships between place, language, performative reading, collective agencies. The exposition uses excellent navigation in very clear design. In view of the large research team, the successful aim to document the process should be appreciated.

3rd. Place: Søren Kjærgaard & Torben Snekkestad

The exposition challenges the idea of sonic identity by practice sharing of audio material and improvisation processes in their exposition “Traversing Sonic Territories (TST)”. It is not easy to convey a sound presentation in RC compared to other visual and graphic tools. The author copes with this predicament through design, navigation and illustrative visual elements and enables us to think about sonic identity, the idea of personal sound.

RC Webinar

We invite all individual members and representatives from our member organisations to a webinar on Zoom presenting a user introduction to the Research Catalogue (RC) on Monday October 21^st 16:00-18:00 CEST. In this webinar, the RC Team – Casper Schipper, Tero Heikkinen and Daniele Pozzi – will offer an introduction to the use of this platform and demonstrate hands-on some of its potential for documenting research processes and outcomes.

There will be the option to raise questions to the presenters during the event.

 

To sign up for the event, kindly refer to the invitation message sent to the respective membership categories.

 

This webinar is an opportunity to all individual members as well as staff and students at our member organisations institution. Want to become a member? Learn more here.

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