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The SIG Facilitating took shape at the 2023 SAR Conference in Trondheim, after observing over an extended time how frequently artists, artistic researchers and even policy makers refer to facilitation when describing interactions with audiences, communities and research partners. Finding ways to examine such facilitating processes is crucial to the work under way. We know that facilitating practices exist widely in interactive and community based art, and in theater and the performing arts, for example using games, props and improvisation. There are intersections with pedagogy and professional facilitation and coaching, with at least the latter understood as prizing outcomes over processes. The SIG Facilitating asks: What does it mean to facilitate as part of artistic research? Why is this focus emerging now? How are we drawing on a greater web? Organized by Marija Griniuk, Postdoctoral researcher at Vilnius Academy of Arts, and director at Sami Center for Contemporary Art in Norway; Janne-Camilla Lyster, Associate Professor, Oslo National Academy of the Arts; and Adelheid Mers, Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (coordinator). Contact: sigfacilitating@gmail.com

type	research exposition
keywords	facilitating, facilitation
date	29/01/2024
last modified	23/02/2025
status	in progress
share status	public
copyright	Adelheid Mers, Marija Griniuk, Janne-Camilla Lyster
license	CC BY-NC-ND
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2527513/3436080
connected to	SIG 8: Facilitating

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copyright	Camila Soares and Fabrício Fava
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copyright	Nienke Scholts
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copyright	Charlotta Ruth, Jasmin Schaitl
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copyright	Nohad ElHajj
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copyright	Nadja van der Weide
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copyright	Monique Koojimans
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