Issue 34 of the Journal for Artistic Research is now online

 

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

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

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.

In her exposition Living Lines of the Barely Noticeable, Linde Ex describes her work developing distinct artistic approaches to relating to and interacting with flying insects. Reflecting on relationships and connections with the more-than-human world, her research embraces reflective attempts to studying glimpses and tatters of ‘insectness’ and includes more active, hands-on experiments that explore manners of being close to (or intimate with) flying insects. [en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1912102]

Riina Maaria Hentriika Hannula´s Agential Guts — Care and Creativity within the Messy Multi-species Assemblage introduces a research practice of messy entanglement with goats, soil, microbial companions and gardening activities. The fieldwork draws on rewilding and kin-making practices reconfiguring the meanings of multispecies assemblage, beyond instrumentalising governance of different species. In producing a situated knowledge platform, Agential Guts seeks to contribute to both art-based research and social studies of microbes, introducing a speculative and embodied way to create knowledge together with nonhumans. [en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.2128308]

Matthew Kaner’s exposition Musical topics, (self-)narrativity and adaptation in my recent composition Pearl, charts the creation and musical-narrative structure of Pearl, a recent composition for symphony chorus, orchestra, and solo baritone. The exposition shows how the composition draws together analytical techniques taken from a variety of musical theories, constructing a ‘new story’ through a ‘plurality of approaches’ in a form of ‘bricolage’ (Stewart 2007). Through the slippage that occurs between narratology and self-narrativization, Pearl is shown also to mirror and situate the author’s personal artistic experiences, suggesting a more open role for the sharing of compositional research. [en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.2353444]

In The Creative Potential of Evolving Constraints in Peer-to-Peer Reciprocal Coaching: A Three-way Investigation, Marie Hallager Andersen, Martin Høybye, and Alan O’Leary report on and assesses the experience of their recent research project, which was designed to gauge the utility of evolving creativity constraints — that is, deliberately adopted restrictions (whether self-imposed or suggested by another) to choices in a given creative project — in the development of projects by the three participants: a dance artist and filmmaker, a songwriter, and an academic video-essayist. [en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.2226731]

In a vivid dialogue between practice and reflection, artistic and academic research, and informed and naive approaches, Franziska Trapp, Natan Alberca and Sabrina Sow present The Non-Human Animal Artist: Toward the Presentation of an Artistic Species-Companionship in Circus. The exposition explores the inventive, creative and active dimensions of non-human animals in the context of circus, asking how we can practice, think, and write contemporary circus beyond the human, while reflecting on what it would mean to create new modes of performance that would (re)valorize the animal in the ring? [en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1702122]

All expositions of this issue can also be viewed in an accessible version. Go to https://jar-online.net/en/issues/34 or switch between versions from within each exposition.

Keywords include:  

Biodiversity, composition, contemporary circus, creativity constraints, embodiment, installation, multispecies ethnography, object oriented ontology, phenomenlogy, rewilding and songwriting.

Take a look at JAR34 and read the editorial by Michael Schwab here: https://jar-online.net/en/issues/34 [en/pt/es/fr]

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, book reviews, and channels.

For issue 34 the growing collection of contributions is joined by four new reflections:

Curatorial Research – Opacity and Criticality from the Inside. Technology, Trans-Cultural Encounters and the Planetary Scale. Olga Schubert and Carmen Weisskopf & Domagoj Smoljo (!Mediengruppe Bitnik), in conversation with Felix Stalder. [en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0074]

El árbol del conocimiento. Visualización, materialización y enseñanza de la investigación en artes de Itzel Palacios Ruiz. [es/fr/en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0075]

Un campo constelado de Eduardo Molinari. [es/en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0076]

Comentarios al II Congreso Latinoamericano de Práctica Artística como Investigación de Carolina Benavente Morales. [es/en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0077]

The JAR Network channels are continuously updated collections of materials:

El Canal en Español, concebido como un punto de acceso a la investigación artística en español (y portugués), ha añadido una nueva sección con enlaces a algunos centros, grupos y programas de América Latina, e invita a enviar sugerencias. [es]

The Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN) channel hosts papers from their annual symposium ART AS RESEARCH: METHODS FOR SYNTHETIC REASONING, which took place in June 2024 in Malaysia. [en]

Igarapés publicou em 2024 a entrevista de Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez, O Perspectivismo Vertiginoso do Teatro Oficina e O Sonho-Semente de Zé Celso de Um Teatro Por Vir (https://jar-online.net/pt/node/2236). [pt]

Der Kanal Diskurse im Deutschsprachigen Raum fasst alle deutschsprachigen JAR Publikationen zusammen und bietet Links zu anderen Materialien in deutscher Sprache. [de]

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 37 (3^rd issue of 2025) is the 31st of January 2025.

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, Iram Ghufran, Yara Guasque, Paul Landon, Barbara Lüneburg, Manuel Ángel Macía, Gabriel Menotti, Lauren O’Neal, Cara Stacey, Mareli Stolp, Tosin Tume, 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 and Paul Landon

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