RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research's newest Issue (23/2025) is released: Re-Imagining

RUUKKU Issue 23 (2025): Re-Imagining
Editors: Harri Laakso, Sofia Pantouvaki and Priska Falin

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Re-imagining addresses the various gestures of going back, returning to take another look, or starting anew. It suggests that research in the context of artistic and creative practice could have a special relation to time; simultaneously attaching itself to a prior moment in time and, from there, propelling imagination to unforeseen futures. The theme proposes reassessments where the evaluation of past events, integral to research, is in unison with the anticipation potential, integral to the arts. It wonders about new conceptions of an idea, place, space, object, and ways of doing and making that emerge from a reverse glance — the challenges, updates, and improvements.

Re-imagining as a theme sparked great interest across the diverse fields of artistic research. The theme has been explored from various perspectives and across different art forms. In the twelve expositions included in this issue, the prefix ‘re’ travels between and through languages, stories, matter, cultures, bodies and practices vibrating through what has been, how we are, and what might yet become. Together, the expositions in this issue demonstrate how ‘re-imagining’ operates as both a conceptual lens and a lived artistic practice - an ongoing movement between past praxis and what might emerge anew. Through acts of revisiting, translating, and transforming, the contributors engage with the temporalities of artistic research: how ideas, materials, and experiences continue to resonate and take new form over time.

The two invited contributions, Voices from Laura Beloff and Mika Elo, continue this conversation, turning toward a more personal and philosophical reflection on how artistic research participates in rethinking our place within the living world.

This RUUKKU issue, on the theme Re-Imagining, builds on the Art of Research VIII conference, held at Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Espoo, Finland, from 30 November to 1 December 2023.

More information: Priska Falin Priska.falin@aalto.fi

Image taken at the Helsinki Biennial 2025, on Vallisaari island in Helsinki, through the work ‘Viewing machine’ by Olafur Eliasson. Photo: Priska Falin.

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