Mend/Blend/Attend. SAR 2022 Proceedings
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author(s): 13th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research
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The 13th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research took place from 30th of June until 3rd of July, 2022, for the first time in Germany at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The conference consisted of a 24-hour online event and three days of live, on-site events in Weimar.
Documentation of the 10th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, Zurich University of the Arts, March 21-23, 2019
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author(s): SAR10
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For the 10th SAR conference on Artistic Research, the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) is back in Switzerland where the society was founded 10 years ago.
The 2019 SAR conference is organized around three topics and two types of session formats for input and discussion. This year’s conference puts the manifoldness of artistic research practices and the discussion of specific aspects in each session at the center of the conference. The three topics are Productive Gaps, Enhanced Dissemination Formats, and Inspiring Failures. To give an overview and deeper insight into the international artistic research activities, contributions take place in a short format of 20 minutes or in a long format of 90 minutes. A keynote presentation are delivered for each of the three topics by Rebecca Hilton, Cathy van Eck and Kristen Kreider.
The Conference Committee is delighted about the fact that individual researchers and research groups, 3rd cycle candidates, postdocs, senior researchers and professors alike have taken the opportunity to submit proposals. The conference has a particular emphasis on the development and use of the time available for discussion within sessions.
Artistic Research Will Eat Itself. Proceedings of the 9th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research
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author(s): Geoff Cox, Azadeh Fatehrad, Anya Lewin, Andrew Prior, Laura Hopes, Hannah Drayson, Allister Gall
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Proceedings of Artistic Research Will Eat Itself (ARWEI) 2018. The 9th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research. University of Plymouth, April 11th-13th, 2018.
EDITORS: Geoff Cox, Hannah Drayson, Azadeh Fatehrad, Allister Gall, Laura Hopes, Anya Lewin, Andrew Prior.
The provocation Artistic Research Will Eat Itself can be understood as a warning against the dangers of methodological introspection, or as a playful invitation to explore the possibilities of a field in a constant state of becoming. In this context, the ‘cannibalism’ of artistic research ‘eating itself’ embodies a dynamic tension between self-destruction and regeneration.
If artistic research eats itself, digests itself and then releases its own waste, does it stink and linger, fertilise new growth or invade new destinations on the bottom of someone’s shoe? If we are to constantly defend and define, are we in danger of having no art left, only the claims for its ability to embody knowledge? When we bite off our own heads do we grow new tails?
Critical perspectives on the discourse surrounding artistic research might be argued to already be too formulaic or self-defeating. Making a case for its own institutional legitimacy could unwittingly reinforce some of the very things artistic research aims to critique. Yet such onto-epistemological paradoxes can offer a rich territory for exploration along with generative practices that involve reflexivity, automorphogenesis, and recursive feedback loops. In recognising auto-cannibalism as an analogy for broader socio-political and environmental concerns, one of the challenges for artistic research is to respond imaginatively to the dynamic tensions between self-destruction and regeneration.
We encourage the exploration of auto-cannibalism in its widest interpretation and invite researchers, artists and scholars of all backgrounds and in all stages of their careers to think of this call for contributions as the first kiss and to propose artworks, cooking classes, films, panels, papers, performances, workshops and other interventions which explore one of the following themes:
• Digestion Breaking down Methodological Introspection
• Regurgitation Reflexivity and Repetition in Artistic Practice
• Regeneration Artistic Research as a Process of Becoming
The 13th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research took place from 30th of June until 3rd of July, 2022, for the first time in Germany at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The conference consisted of a 24-hour online event and three days of live, on-site events in Weimar.open exposition comments (0)