Issue 37 of the Journal for Artistic Research is now Online

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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 akzeptiert Einreichungen auf Spanisch, Portugiesisch, Französisch, Deutsch und Englisch.
JAR accepts submissions in French, Spanish, Portuguese, 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.

Issue 37 contains 5 peer-reviewed contributions:

In the exposition, xeno/exo/astro -choreoreadings, Simo Kellokumpu explores site- and place-responsive choreographic practices by expanding the notions of ‘site’ and ‘place’ to outer space, specifically to planetary conditions to which we do not have direct access. Another key choreographic exploration focuses on embodying hyper-reading and examining the impact of digital reading on embodied artistic practice. The research project blends these two spatial dimensions, in which the examination of the notions of choreography and choreoreading happen. [en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.2730852]

Serena Lee’s Playing the Mountain investigates ‘balance’ as the dynamic interplay of yinyang, through the practice of taijiquan (a Chinese internal martial art). Drawing on principles of Chinese aesthetics from a diasporic perspective, Playing the Mountain deploys artistic strategies to consider agency, (non-)presence, tension, and resistance. This constellation traces unseen forces through kites, music, geological processes and Chinese calligraphy, gathering different ways to ask: what are the implications of understanding balance, not as a state, but as a process? [en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.2794897]

In the exposition ECOTONE, composer, musician and radio producer Niamh O Brien introduces the use of deep mapping to create a site-specific sound installation. In this work, the author developed an approach that involved recording the music, sounds and stories of place, and re-imaging them through composition practice. The research explores a new approach to understanding and representing place including spatial considerations and adhering to locations and boundaries, while adding a new perspective to the field of deep mapping, proposing ways in which it can forge connections between creative process, people and place. [en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.2501425]

Bodies in Transition by Anja Plonka, Rasmus Nordholt-Frieling, Marko Stefanovic and Laura Brechmann, describes the researchers’ performative enquiry into the protected area of cliffs and mudflats found on the island of Sylt (Germany). The dynamic ecosystems they encounter, with their tidal rhythms dictated by the moon and sun and their diverse life forms, ranging from Japanese berry seaweed to Pacific oysters, make the world’s processualism perceptible. The performers immerse themselves in a fluid space of video, sound, natural materials, and performance, rethinking and questioning the diverse relationships between the organisms of the Wadden Sea and their own state as living beings. [en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.3008895]

Kevin Skelton’s A Metaphorical Methodology: Embracing Complexity in Doctoral Artistic Research, invites readers on a guided tour of words, images, exploratory video and visits to the author’s garden in Abruzzo (Italy). In the exposition, Skelton reconsiders several research models encountered during his PhD research, investigating transdisciplinary performing practices, and lays out a pathway — from model to metaphor. The exposition employs metaphors inspired not only by the author’s artistic work, but also by his garden, and life in rural Italy, where he lived throughout his PhD studies. [en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.2951879] 

All expositions in this issue can also be viewed in an accessible version. Go to https://jar-online.net/en/issues/37 or switch between versions from within each exposition.

Keywords include: breathing, choreography, cosmology, dance, deep map, ecology, embodied knowledge, field recording, martial arts, metaphor, methods, performance, place and sound installation.

Take a look at JAR37 and read the editorial by Michael Schwab here: https://jar-online.net/en/issues/37 [en/pt/fr]

The JAR 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 and book reviews.

For issue 37 the growing collection of contributions is joined by 3 reflections:

El ‘Canal en Español’ de JAR: reflexiones sobre la marcha by Carolina Benavente Morales [es/en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0086]

Some Opinions about Publishing in Small Languages by Hanna Järvinen [en] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0087]

4 PREGUNTAS “Nos alejamos de la idea de control, museificación y aislamiento de un supuesto objeto de estudio. Con el viento eso es imposible” by Entrevista a Archivo de lo Audible (Iván Rivelli, Gabriela Hernández, Álvaro Martín) [es] [https://doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0088]

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 40 (Last issue of 2026) is the 31st of January 2026.

JAR works with an international editorial board and a large panel of peer-reviewers.

Editor in Chief: Michael Schwab

Managing Editor: Barnaby Drabble

Editorial Board: Annette Arlander, Diego Castro Magas, Carolina Benavente, Danny Butt, Iram Ghufran, Yara Guasque, Julian Klein, Joseph Kunnuji, Paul Landon, Barbara Lüneburg, Gabriel Menotti, Vytautas Michelkevičius, Adam Tahir Mirza, Lauren O’Neal, Cara Stacey, Tosin Tume, Reiko Yamada, Mariela Yeregui and Lim Kok Yoong

Interns: Veronica Laminarca and Costanza Tagliaferri.

Associate Editors: Joaquín Macedo and Elisa Noronha

Spanish Panel: Mariela Yeregui, Diego Castro Magas, Carolina Benavente and Yara Guasque

Portuguese Panel: Yara Guasque, 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

JAR is published by the Society for Artistic Research (SAR), an independent, non-profit association. You can support JAR by becoming an individual or institutional member of SAR. For updates on our activities, join our mailing list.