Registration deadline April 10, 2025 - 16th SAR Conference

The 16th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research is hosted by i2ADS, University of Porto and organised in collaboration with the Society of Artistic Research (SAR). It is the largest conference on practice-based research through the arts with more than 55 presentations, including keynotes, opening performance, Early Career Researcher Encounters, Poster Presentations and the Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2024. The SAR Conference brings together leading practitioners, scholars and policymakers to showcase exemplary artistic research projects while focusing on key issues through critical debate.

Remember to register before the deadline on April 10th, 2025:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2759372/2831091

Learn more about the conference programme: 
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2759372/3510267

CONFERENCE VENUE
Faculty of Engineering
University of Porto
s/n, R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465
Porto, Portugal

 

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.

However, it can also be understood as a critical tool characterised by reciprocity and mutual transformation. Resonance is a response to personal and global challenges both poetically and through modes of political imagination and transformative meeting spaces.

Getting into resonance is to create a relation between artistic research and the world that requires questioning and answering, but also the ability to change and be changed.

 

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WHY RESONANCE?

Resonance is about responsiveness

A resonant experience is a function of vulnerability, both in terms of susceptibility to external influence and the quality of openness that facilitates a meaningful encounter with the world. What artistic research strategies can enhance openness and responsiveness to the affordances of our environment?

Resonance is about transferability and transformation of experience

How artistic research methods contribute to cross-fertilization between sectors and disciplines, enabling wider adquisition of skills, awareness, and agency?

Resonance is not consonance

How artistic research practices embody conflicts and mediate crisis, creating spaces for divergent voices and intercultural cooperation?

Resonance is searching and imagining

Artistic research plays a fundamental role in developing counterfactual ways of thinking and exploring the path of what happens "if". How do counterfactual reasoning and research intertwine to create narratives of change?

Resonance occurs in the invisible movements crossing geographical space and historical time

How do artistic researchers draw on ancestral storytelling and marginal sources of knowledge, despite colonial legacies and forced dispossession, to create new cultural practices?

Resonance is about transforming materialities

How do materials and the material culture of artistic research resonate the environmental, social and cultural needs of our time?

Resonance is an effect of time and duration

How artistic research affect and change our experience of time? What time-based artistic research methods can enhance our sense of belonging?

 

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