An Obstract for Midpointness
(2018)
author(s): Andrew Bracey, Steve Dutton
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
Our aim here is to both provide a response to the Conference ‘Please Specify!’ and to find an alternate way of ensuring that the intrinsic generative nature of research and art is kept active, akin to the mobius strip-like path of both conclusions, and openings.
“Midpointness” is a generative project. It is dismantled and reconstructed through the gradual accretion of surrounding connections, associations and influences of the curators, artists, students and other audiences who contribute to it. These are in the form of artworks, public events, texts, artefacts, performances or other interventions. 'An Obstract for Midpointness' (Obstract)is a piece of artistic research constructed before, during and after, "PLEASE SPECIFY!", The SAR Annual Conference 2017.
'Obstract' is as an element of the ongoing project “Midpointness” that seeks to invite us to consider the ‘work’ of art as art’s labour or task. We seek to explore the dynamics of inner/outer dialogues of the process of artistic work, opening up other potentials that an artist researcher might hope for when he/she explores the generative potential of the work of artistic research directly within and in response to a conference about artistic research.
At the centre is spoken text that is a play on the tradition of the conference ‘abstract.’ The abstract is the site of an outline of intention, yet here we couple it with an ‘obstruction’ as a means of aggravating and diverting the attempt at a conclusion towards which an abstract, and indeed a formal presentation, might be aimed. “Obstract” suggests, by a process of intervention that the ‘centre’ (the work and/or the text) and its surrounding universe are completely indivisible. As such the principle of ‘footnotes’ filter through to the whole spoken text; the footnotes being analogous to the surrounding constellations within which the ‘centre’ of the work sits, swapping footnotes for centre and vice versa. The footnotes refer to points both real and imagined in the past, present and future.
Mend/Blend/Attend. SAR 2022 Proceedings
(last edited: 2024)
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.
A.Re Days - Artistic Research Days
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Elena Giulia Rossi, Nele Hartmann, Veronika Pfaffinger, Claus Schöning, Mona Freudenreich, Ana Pireva, Viktoria Ovsepian, Robert Czolkoß, Ronja Sommer, Taemen Jung, Lotte Dohmen, Till Ansgar Baumhauer, Anna Lorenzana
connected to: EU4ART_differences
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EU4ART_differences project is delighted to present the A.Re Days program. Three days dedicated to artistic research will celebrate the core projects developed by EU4ART_differences alliance through the course of the last three years, culminating in the European Researcher’s Night, on September 29, 2023.
VOICES_ruukku_peripheries/katveet issue: FLOATING PERIPHERIES Conference 2019 – Sites and Situations
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Maiju Loukola, Mari Mäkiranta
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FLOATING PERIPHERIES CONFERENCE 2019 – SITES AND SITUATIONS was an international conference on artistic research organized by the research consortium “Floating Peripheries – mediating the sense of place” between Aalto ARTS Department of Film, Tv and Scenography and University of Lapland’s Faculty of Art and Design.
The conference and the curated event of experimental and situated artistic research practices, “Sites and Situations Art Event”, took place on 14 – 16 January 2019 at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi.
This "VOICES" exposition presents a selection of conference and post-conference contributions (essays, articles, conference papers, abstracts, afterthoughts and images) by participating artistic researchers, scholars and students across disciplines, aesthetics and practices. It also presents a "visual journey" of the art event, curated by the artist-in-consortium Pia Euro.
The conference focused on the notion of periphery/ peripheries in relation to the varied methods, materials, concepts, questions and ideas accurate in the fields of artistic research and visual studies. During the 3-day international event, which took place at the heart of the arctic periphery, a multitude of peripheral sites and situations were speculated as multi-layered and complex phenomenon – as conceptual, spatial and site-responsive domains, aesthetically and spatially shaped and experienced associations, representations and practices through different mediums in arts and epistemologies. The conference included presentations, artistic interventions, discussions and installations.
The exposition editors are Maiju Loukola, Mari Mäkiranta and Pia Euro.
The "Floating Peripheries" consortium is funded by the Academy of Finland during 2017–2021.
(See more: https://floatingperipheries.fi/about/)
Digital Stage
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Julian Klein
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Live Rehearsal and Performance Online
UNSCHÄRFEN eine art konferenz
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Doris Ingrisch, Andrea Sodomka
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Clarity as a hidden imperative of modernism was useful to
Enlightenment, for demystifying the modern world. Ambiguity, however,
breaks with the notion of a universe of clarity. Opposites blur,
ambiguity is given space – through listening, seeing, thinking. The
relationship to the observed undergoes change. Time is necessary in
order to see something, the intention is to bring out associations.
Documentation of the 10th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, Zurich University of the Arts, March 21-23, 2019
(last edited: 2019)
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.
CONFERENCE 2017: PLEASE SPECIFY!
(last edited: 2017)
author(s): Society for Artistic Research, Mika Elo, Tero Heikkinen, Siiri-Maija Heino
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International Conference on Artistic Research Helsinki 28 & 29 April 2017
Printable versions of the Conference Programme and the Book of Abstracts are now online.
The Dark Precursor. International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research
(last edited: 2016)
author(s): Paulo de Assis, Paolo Giudici
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The Dark Precursor: International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research (DARE 2015) explores possibilities, uses, and appropriations of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s philosophy in the field of Artistic Research. As references to Deleuze’s philosophy, alone or in collaboration with Guattari, have become frequent across the varied expressions of artistic research, the conference aims to identify, trace, and map concepts and practices that connect artistic research projects to their philosophy, both from the scholar’s and from the practitioner’s perspectives. DARE 2015 takes place from 9 to 11 November 2015 in three different venues: the Orpheus Institute, De Bijloke Muziekzentrum, and the Sphinx cinema, all in walkable distance from one another and within the city centre of Ghent (Belgium).
The conference is hosted by the Orpheus Institute, the leading European centre for artistic research in music, which is home to the docARTES doctoral programme, the Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM), and the MusicExperiment21 project funded by the European Research Council.
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)
EU4ART_differences project is delighted to present the A.Re Days program. Three days dedicated to artistic research will celebrate the core projects developed by EU4ART_differences alliance through the course of the last three years, culminating in the European Researcher’s Night, on September 29, 2023.open exposition comments (0)
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Clarity as a hidden imperative of modernism was useful to Enlightenment, for demystifying the modern world. Ambiguity, however, breaks with the notion of a universe of clarity. Opposites blur, ambiguity is given space – through listening, seeing, thinking. The relationship to the observed undergoes change. Time is necessary in order to see something, the intention is to bring out associations.open exposition comments (0)
International Conference on Artistic Research Helsinki 28 & 29 April 2017 Printable versions of the Conference Programme and the Book of Abstracts are now online.open exposition comments (0)