LANDING #2 Extending the Echoes: Ways with Documentation for Artists Doing Research

LANDING is pleased to announce the publication of its second issue Extending the Echoes: Ways with Documentation for Artists Doing Research.

With contributions from: Sophie L. O. Durand, Nithya V. M. Iyer, Aaron Goddard, Eva la Cour, Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy, Laura De Jaeger, Kat Cutler-MacKenzie, Ben Caro, David de Rozas, Perdita Phillips, Lukas Mykolaitis, Greta Grinevičiutė, Jaime Belmonte, Darren O’Brien, Cemre Eraslan, Ieva Šlaičiūnaitė, Ditiya Ferdous, Noah Emanuel Morrison, Xingpei Shen, Jan Glöckner, Kirsty Kross, anna andrejew, Floris Janssens

Contributor Bios and Article Summaries can be read here.

We invite you to read and to find relation, to look at the specificities of the aspects of the practices disclosed and to notice the similarities and differences to your own ways of working.

All articles are available on our website: https://landing.vda.lt/journal/issue/view/2

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Extending the Echoes has been collaboratively shaped through a process of call and response. The articles provide examples of the different ways that artists who research engage with their own collected material; reflect on the processes by which this material is collected; and outline how this material becomes both modes for reflection and means to propel trajectories of making in multiple directions. Part of these different ways of approaching material involves recognising how context and lived experiences bleed into artistic production. The articles can offer insights into our relationships to journals, diaries, logbooks, and other collections that exist alongside and as an intrinsic part of this process. These are an artist's archive.

The term archive is charged: archives are by definition spaces of exclusion and reproduction of specific ideologies. When we talk about archives in the context of this issue of LANDING, we’re talking about the recording media, anecdotes and the spaces between them and the perceived now. We’re talking about echoes. The echoes, and the means by which they are extended, oscillate in relation to the spaces of doing, observing, and deciding that frame research and inquiry within the arts.

There isn’t a single way to record or remember. An artist researcher can draw, recall, capture an image or refuse to do anything and thus create an outcome. Such an outcome is not contingent on an encounter, nor is it the byproduct of one. There is a complex interplay at work – a multitude of dynamics all riffing off each other and a hum that reverberates between action and reaction, transforming practice into something that could be defined as research with moments of doing, observing, and deciding. Means of documentation are both outcomes, and driving forces, of creative inquiries, as much as they are sites for doubt, questions and evidencing of that process. This is where this issue of LANDING dwells.

This issue of LANDING has been enabled by the generosity of our many allies and supporters at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and beyond. The editorial collective for Issue #2 included Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy, Sophie L.O. Durand, Indrė Liškauskaitė and Simona Rukuižaitė. The collective would like to thank our editorial and advisory board members for staying with the project and supporting its development. 

We extend our deepest gratitude to all those who agreed to participate in our community of peer reviewers. Many of the contributors to Extending the Echoes have supported their fellow contributors through reviewing texts in development. The peer review community is the most generous and generative part of making each issue of our journal happen. 

Special thanks to Mantas Lesauskas, Ash Tower, Ruth Anderwald + Leo Grond, Mick Wilson and Marius Iršėnas with whom we consulted directly about LANDING's development during 2025.

Advisory Board—Dr. Marius Iršėnas (Vilnius Academy of Arts), Dr. Arnas Anskaitis (Vilnius Academy of Arts), Bjarki Bragason (Iceland University of the Arts), Ruth Anderwald + Leo Grond (Artist-Researchers and Artist Curators), Mantas Lesauskas (Vilnius Academy of Arts), Dr. Nina Liebenberg (University of the Arts, Helsinki), Dr. Rūta Spelskytė (Vilnius Academy of Arts) Dr. Ash Tower, Dr. Kieron Broadhurst (Curtin University), Dr. Marqard Smith (Vilnius Academy of Arts, University College London), Dr. Vytautas Michelkevičius (Vilnius Academy of Arts), Dr. Julija Fomina (Vilnius Academy of Arts)

LANDING is an international platform that facilitates critical and creative artistic inquiry, with a special focus on research methods and an ethos of research. LANDING is led by Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy and Sophie L. O. Durand.

Photos by Martyna Kairaitytė

Footer Image from the article Super Pumper: From Utility to Identity by Ieva Šlaičiūnaitė