Expanded edition, Reclaiming Artistic Research (2024)

Reclaiming Artistic Research explores artistic research in dialogue with 24 artists worldwide. Reclaiming the term “artistic research” from academic associations and expectations, this book foregrounds the material, spatial, embodied, organizational, choreographic, and technological ways of knowing and unknowing specific to contemporary artistic inquiry.

The expanded second edition features an extensive new essay by the book's author/editor, Lucy Cotter ("Artistic Research in a World on Fire") and four new artist dialogues (with Stephanie Dinkins, Yo-Yo Lin, Richard Mosse, and Cannupa Hanska Luger), which collectively reflect on the changing stakes of artistic research in the wake of the global pandemic, the widespread reckoning with social justice, the growing role of artificial intelligence, and the urgent reality of climate change. 

This book highlights the need for artistic research in a world seeking new ideas for social and political transformation, and embraces its agency in decolonizing, de-ableizing, and re-Indigenizing knowledge. 

Dialogues with: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Katayoun Arian, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Stephanie Dinkins, Sher Doruff, Em'kal Eyongakpa, Ryan Gander, Mario García Torres, Liam Gillick, Natasha Ginwala, Sky Hopinka, Manuela Infante, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Grada Kilomba, Yo-Yo Lin, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Sarat Maharaj, Emma Moore, Richard Mosse, Rabih Mroué, Christian Nyampeta, Yuri Pattison, Falke Pisano, Sarah Rifky, Samson Young.

Lucy Cotter is curating a year-long program of talks, workshops, screenings, and live performance entitled Artistic Research in a World on Fire (2024-5) at Stelo Arts, Portland; e-flux, New York; Et al., San Francisco; Rivers Institute for Art and Thought, New Orleans, and The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, among other venues in the US, Canada, and Europe.

For ongoing announcements of upcoming events (in-person and remote), please see: www.reclaimingartisticresearch.com

For queries and enquiries about possible collaboration, please email: info@reclaimingartisticresearch.com

Reclaiming Artistic Research is available to purchase at leading bookshops, museums, and galleries worldwide and via all regular book-selling outlets online (Bookshop.org, Amazon, etc)

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If you have specific access needs, please email (same as above) to request an access copy of this publication. 

If you wish to stock this book, please see Hatje Cantz's information on global distribution here. 

Lucy Cotter is an independent writer, curator, and artist, whose work engages with art as a site of knowledge and radical cultural transformation. She is widely published in books and journals (Flash Art, Hyperallergic, Frieze, Mousse, Third Text) and has curated projects globally. She was the  Curator of the Dutch Pavilion, 57^th Venice Biennale, 2017. She has lectured in Europe and the US and was the inaugural director of the Master Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

This expanded second edition of Reclaiming Artistic Research (2024) is published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, with the support of Stelo Arts and Culture Foundation, Portland, Oregon, in conjunction with Lucy Cotter's project residency 2023-24.

Stelo Arts and Culture Foundation embraces the power of art to invite conversation and build community at its gallery in downtown Portland and its rural residency in Camp Colton, Oregon.

https://www.steloarts.org/