The EU4ART Alliance can investigate into the postgraduate field in the education of young artists with additional financing from Horizon 2020. EU4ART_differences will explore concepts for postgraduate studies and look at methods to artistic research from many perspectives with a team of experts and PhD students.
The debut English-language webinar, “Differences in Artistic Research: Fine Arts and Society,” took place on November 25. Speakers from all of the participating institutions will discuss innovative methods to digital teaching and learning, artistic knowledge and concepts, and new models in artistic research.
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Agenda and Speakers
The annual FilmEU Summit took place from June 7th to 10th at the National Film School, IADT in Dublin, and was organized by the European University FilmEU for Film and Media Arts. At the event, the progress in the development of the project was presented, and results were shared with the wider academic community and invited partners to discuss issues of artistic research. This year's theme was ecological sustainability in film education and the film and media arts industry more broadly. Conference speakers included political decision makers, experts, scholars, and most importantly, students. Manuel Angel Macía (LMA), Franco Ripa di Meana (ABARoma), and Till A. Baumhauer (HfBK) presented our project, including epistemic approaches for artistic research and progress in the virtual studio. They continued conversations with colleagues from the Film Alliance, and the EU4ART_differences team is looking forward to future collaborations.
Colleagues from the art academies in Dresden, Rome, and Riga followed the invitation to a personal meeting of the portal partners in the Research Catalogue in Vienna. Since June 2022, our alliance has been a part of the EU4ART_differences project portal partner and is part of a completely new offering.
The tasks of the project teams in EU4ART_differences include making a repository for artistic research accessible. Therefore, the colleagues have been in close exchange with the Research Catalogue since 2021, which offers exactly what we wanted for our plans in the second half of the project. We are very happy to be able to enter into a partnership as the first project alongside the Special Interest Groups of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR). This is an experiment for both the developers, the SAR colleagues, and us. In the next 18 months, we will use the Research Catalogue to prepare and document workshops and summer schools, and to virtually present the artistic-research works of our master's students and PhD students within the alliance. It is a strong tool for collaborative work and for presenting own projects in a protected environment. Finally, outstanding works can also be published and then subject to all relevant guidelines for open access.
The two-part event deals with the question of what Artistic Research is, what it can achieve and what new spheres of activity it creates. Intersections and perspectives for an open art practice that seeks increased exchange with the academic landscape and society will be made visible using exemplary projects.
The extended symposium aims to make the current discourse on artistic research and the potentials arising from it tangible in a broad spectrum and to communicate it locally and internationally to society, the academic world and the artistic community.
A cooperation of Artists’ Board of Saxony (LBK Sachsen e.V.), Custody of Technical University Dresden (TU Dresden) and Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK Dresden), EU4ART_differences project and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony.
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The exhibition features students Elīna Brese, Veronika Frolova, Edmunds Jansons, Rasa Jansone, Laima Jurča, Vineta Kreigere, Ūna Laukmane, Agnese Narņicka, Egons Peršēvics, Anna Pommere, Ansis Rozentāls, Sandra Strēle, Atis Šnēvelis, Laura Veļa, Linda Vilka, Mārtiņš Zutis. Prof. Barbara Abele, Prof. Aigars Bikše, Prof. Andris Vītoliņš, Prof. Kristaps Zariņš, Prof. Mārtiņš Kalsers, Prof. Aleksejs Naumovs Prof. Juris Petraškevičs and Asoc. prof. Ph.D Jacek Kolasinski.
The exhibition is organised as part of the European Union's Horizon 2020 project "Diversity - Art Research in the European Union", which aims to develop research in art, design and theoretical knowledge.
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‘Artistic Research and the Third Cycle in the Arts’ will be discussed in a conference that will be held virtually and in presence at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome on 20 July, 2022, bringing together the experience of several generations, from leading researchers active in academic discussion throughout Europe, to young junior scientists who, thanks to the European project, have been able to start postgraduate research.
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| Press release |
Speaker's recordings (scroll):
A European overview; Chair - Costanza Barbieri
Till Baumhauer (Project leader, EU4ART_differences):Artistic Research within EU4ART_differences
Within a bucolic and spiritual landscape that characterises the Roman countryside, ABARoma organised four full days of webinars and workshops in order to tackle two main research questions: Do we need digital rites, and how can we shape them? Are our digital experiences translating into embodied memories?
During the Summer School eminent scholars and experts will deliver talks on several interrelated topics that cover subjects such as artificial intelligence in arts and humanities, immersive technologies, gamification, digital currencies, embodied memories and neurosciences.
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Full Video (12 min)
drive.google.com/file/d/15p2mxewsJninLbrFoqcrv1nW9YM-4f9Y/view?usp=sharing
Teaser social (1 min)
drive.google.com/file/d/1_S8F7jPi_g8yAlrwylEiY7w0lV7U6uyN
Short social video (5 min)
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During Art Market Budapest works of EU4Art students were displayed on the exhibition stand of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (HUFA) between 6th and 9th October. The artefacts dealt with the ways how students coped with the recent global and personal crises at an international level. The selection represented not only traditional techniques, but fresh tendencies and new mediums as well. On the fair collectors and art lovers could discover new talents and gained an overview about the profile of each EU4Art member institution. Furthermore, the event offered an unique retail opportunity for the students, as all displayed works were on sale.
Experts of the EU4Art Alliance outlined the newest strategies of art education during a panel discussion on 9th October. The speakers were Tiziana D’Acchille (Academy of Fine Arts of Rome), Antra Priede (Academy of Latvia, Riga), Andrea Weippert (Dresden Academy of Fine Arts) and Patrick Tayler (Hungarian University of Fine Arts). The talk was moderated by László Lelkes, vice-rector of the HUFA.
Art Market Budapest is the biggest art fair in East-Central Europe. It was established in 2011 and focuses especially on the new, inspiring artistic trends and the talents of the future. The fair attracts huge international attention every year, exhibitors have arrived from more than 40 countries of 5 continents so far. The annual number of visitors is estimated to be around 30.000.
HfBK started the pilot phase for the third study cycle (our “lab for Artistic Research”) with ten master-class students yesterday. This week’s programme involves a lecture by Angelica Speroni from ABARoma tomorrow evening 7 p.m. CET, which we will make accessible via Zoom for you to take part.
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Angelica Speroni graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, is currently a PhD student at EDESTA (Paris8) and works as a mentor coordinator and project assistant for the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in the framework of the EU4ART project. In a university-public lecture, she will share findings from her dissertation titled “In limine. Strategies of Intermediality in Contemporary Art”.
Intermediality, between artistic research and communication
In the late 1960s, artists were chased by the emerging figure of the ‘curator’, a theorist, not an artist, whose purpose was to communicate and to bring to the world’s attention someone else’s genius. Nowadays, curators, the critics and the communicators outnumber artists and have themselves become the protagonists, sometimes even before the work they present. But, on the other hand, those are dying professions, or at least their definitions (as well as these words) need to be radically rethought. And, first as always, it is the artists who are doing it.
Today we are witnessing the rediscovery of the importance of practical-political knowledge, and although the focus of contemporary art practices is, as it has always been, on topical issues, they must always be explained, communicated, to be understood. In order to fulfil their intellectual, political function as a tool for reflection and the autopoiesis of the public, artworks must be understood. And increasingly, the artist feels the need to contribute to, if not totally impose, its dissemination. Thus, dissemination is part of the artwork.
If, therefore, when the concept of intermediality was coined (by an artist), it indicated the non-homogeneity of means and languages involved in the genesis of the work, today it must necessarily also include its very communication-documentation.
Angelica Speroni
graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, is currently a PhD student at EDESTA (Paris8) and works as a mentor coordinator and project assistant for the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in the framework of the EU4ART project. She worked as curator and co-curator for several exhibitions and has participated as a lecturer and moderator in numerous conferences. She has also published her theoretical work in scientific journals. She is currently editing a course given by Cesare Brandi at the Sapienza University of Rome on nineteenth-century painting (1970-1971).
From 2019 to 2021, she was a teaching assistant in Professor Massimo Carboni’s Aesthetics course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in which she gave several lectures.
PhD thesis
In limine. Strategies of intermediality in the contemporary arts
Director Emanuele Quinz, Paris 8 University – Co-director Angela Vettese, IUAV, Venice
Full curriculum: https://scenes-monde.univ-paris8.fr/angelica-speroni-1517
Within the project Wissen schafft Raum (Knowledge Creates Space) which is part of the program TUD im Dialog – Institute of Art and Music and the Faculty of Architecture, TU Dresden and PhfTD – students of the HfBK and Palucca University of Dance Dresden will present their work which shows an experimental interaction with sound, movement and their relation to space.
ARTISTS
• JACK BANNERMAN
• NA BESERRA
• YEONWOO CHANG
• DAN DATCU
• LI KRAIRNBAUER
• NICOLAI LEICHER
• ANN-MARIE NAJDEREK
• LIU SHIYU
• NOE VALDESWISSENVEGA
ADDRESS
FOYER, Weiße Gasse 8
01067 Dresden
SCIENTIFIC INPUT / ARTISTIC POSITION:
Jun.- Prof. Dr. Miriam Akkermann
Empiric Musicology, TU Dresden
Prof. Katharina Christl
Palucca University of Dance Dresden
Prof. Dr. Henning Haupt
Chair of Foundations in Art and Architecture, TU Dresden
Project management / Organisation:
Dipl. Ing. Rostislav Komitov, WMA
Chair of Foundations in Art and Architecture, TU Dresden
Till Ansgar Baumhauer PhD
Projekt EU4ART_differences, HfBK Dresden
COOPERATION
Students, Alumni HfBK Dresden
Students of the M.A. Choreography, Palucca University of Dance Dresden
More information at TU Dresden webpage
https://tu-dresden.de/bu/architektur/ifge/gl/die-professur/newsuebersicht/sound-space-body
EU4ART_differences revealed the first steps of construction of The Creative Ecosystem of the European project that the Alliance is bringing forward at the ELIA Bienniale (22 – 26 November, 2022), this year hosted by UNIARTS Helsinki and organised by the most important association of Arts Academies in Europe, that is to say ELIA – European League of Institute of Arts.
Event report
Beginning with Gertrude Stein’s praise of a theater that should be like a landscape one is passing through, Stefanie Wenner began her artistic research on landscape play under the title FERMATE in August 2020. Since then, she has been understanding herself as an apprentice of the land she passes through and has collected stories brought forth by human and more than human bodies. In between these she began noticing a collective that reaches far beyond the human body and is now trying to come to terms with this public she feels all at once confronted with and a part of by means of indegenous knowledge, storytelling and also through working with more than human agents. The lecture is giving insight into practice and collective experiences on the way.
Our EU4ART alliance is launching Artistic Research (AR) labs at all partner academies in Riga, Rome, Budapest, and Dresden in order to empower artists and make artistic practice and research visible. This endeavour is supported by Horizon2020’s SWAF (Science with and for Society) programme.At the summer school in Montecompatri, several of us have already had the chance to introduce others to their artistic research projects and learn more about them. We wish to carry on with this format digitally and hereby invite you to
Every 4-6 weeks on Zoom, Peers’n’differences is set to take place, allowing 3-5 students the chance to present their work. Following the presentation, there will be time for discussion.
If you would like to join the event as peer or/and speaker, please check the “Registration” box. This event is hosted by HfBK Dresden and part of the local AR block session 5-9 December.
Art in Action Research (AiAR) enables including diverse notions of art, knowledge bases, theories and concepts from across disciplines and regions. Thereupon, AiAR grounds the methodology creation (or methodology crafting) in the research process, which centres on an issue emerging from the work environment and the relevant web of particulars, their positionalities, and histories. As such, the AiAR paradigm stands in contrast to artistic research approaches informed by Euro-American art-historical understandings of art, which adhere to and apply universal, non-grounded assumptions about art. Instead, AiAR mirrors art practice procedures and conveys these into research. Dominique will discuss the need for such a transformative research approach considering the global turn. She will then briefly address the development of AiAR, followed by the introduction of its characteristics.
Dominique Lämmli hast long been working with studio-based, collective and performative painting strategies. She has also co-initiated temporary spaces for joint learning, imagination and co-creation with colleagues across the world and has explored and written on working with art in socio-cultural settings. She is a professor of drawing and painting at the Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland, the co-founder of FOA-FLUX, a Zurich-based reserach micro-hub, and obtained her Dr. Phil. in Global and Area Studies from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, in 2022. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7171-6263
In the northern city park “Großer Garten (Great Garden), the small studio stands like a foreign body in the landscape. This place is the starting point for the experimental investigations of color and material in relation to space. In the coming weeks, students of the HfBK Dresden, the TU Dresden and artists will present their installations here throughout the entire event period. The installations will also be open to the public after the openings. The event will be held in German.
Invitation to the first presentation on Tuesday, 13 December 2022, 7 p.m.
Glow and Gray / Glanz und Grau, Jonas Elben und Philipp Hellwig, 13.12. – 16.12. 2022
Following events
Palm House /Palmenhaus, Ruben Müller, 22.12.2022 – 05.01.2023
Vernissage: Do, 22.12./ 19:00
Transit, Brian Curling, 09.01. – 15.01.2023
Vernissage: Do, 12.01./ 19:00
Intermediate borders / Zwischengrenzen, Josefin Belz und Lena-Luise Grigorow, 20.01. – 25.01.2023
Vernissage: Fr, 20.01./ 19:00
construction site, Eric Beier, 02.02. – 07.02.2023
Vernissage: 02.02./ 19:00
In the Great Garden of Pleasure/Im Großen Garten der Lust, Ursula-Susanne Buchart, 11.02. – 16.02.2023
Vernissage: 11.02./ 13:00
AT: Billboard Hot 100, Ludwig Kupfer, 23.02. – 02.03.2023
Vernissage: 23.02./ 19:00
Drawing in Space / Zeichnen im Raum, 06.03. – 12.03.2023
Finissage: 12.03./ 19:00
Color mirrors/Farbenspiegel, Youngmin Lee, 26.03. – 02.04.2023
Vernissage: 26.03.2023
Magenta Perspectives, Henning Haupt, 06.04. – 16.04.2023
Vernissage: 06.04./ 15:00
one road, one belt/ Empires, Rojo&Kress und Jan Kunze, 22.04. – 28.04.2023
On Thursday January 19th, 2023, the Fine Arts Academy of Rome officially launched CARE (Creative Artistic Research Ecosystem), the laboratory of artistic research in partnership with the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Roma Tre University section. In the context of EU4ART_differences‘ art labs development, ABARoma made a framework agreement with the National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Roma Tre University section to open a transdisciplinary dialogue in the perspective of creating common research to evolve in between artistic practice and scientific investigation.
Within the frame of the historical building of the Fine Arts Academy of Rome, Professor Costanza Barbieri from WP2, along with the collaboration of the work packages 3,4,5, hosted the lab partners for mutual acquaintance, structuring the day in a trans-disciplinary meeting, where guest professors from the academy, PhD students and junior scientists could exchange perspectives and ideas with INFN representatives, in double scenarios, now on physics, now on art, thus preparing the ground for a dialogue that followed throughout the afternoon.
This talk will address some distinctions and overlaps between artistic and curatorial research. To which extent do contemporary artists operate like curators, and curators like artists? Is it counterproductive to separate these roles? Do both artistic and curatorial research produce aesthetic knowledge and experiences? In order to discuss these questions we will focus on our curatorial and artistic project called Fool Moon Screenings (2019- ongoing), a series of collaborative and performative events around the moon, food and moving images. The screenings stand in line with a living history of queer underground practices that blur distinctions between curation and art making, suggesting the importance of coming together around images and collectivizing authorship.
Fulll Moon Screenings were conceived and are curated with artist François Pisapia, who will also present the project. François Pisapia is an artist and filmmaker whose work has been screened and exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), Staedel Museum (Frankfurt), Mal Seh’n Kino (Frankfurt), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Czech Centre (New York) and Centre Clark (Montréal). He recently directed an evening of performances and screenings at Echo Correspondence, in the frame of ImpulsTanz (Vienna). José B. Segebre Salazar (*1987, MX/HN) is a writer, scholar and curator living in Berlin. As a doctoral candidate in Philosophy/Aesthetics at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach (DE), he explores the time of waiting to discuss notions of passivity, power and unfreedom in contemporary art and politics. José has written for artists, catalogues, exhibitions and has published in the journals of the Association of Historians of American Art (AHA) and the College Art Association (CAA).
In this session for the HfBK Artistic Research Labs, we will explore the Research Catalogue (RC) as a tool for publishing and ‘exposing’ artistic research work. We will discuss discuss the term ‘expositionality’—a key guiding notion for publishing in the broad field of artistic research, coined by Michael Schwab. Taking expositionality as a starting point, we will look at the features and technical potentials of the RC as a powerful digital tool for exploring, archiving, and publishing artistic research.
The discussion panels will present four artistic research labs that have been established in a joint project between four European universities — Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Dresden University of Fine Arts, Art Academy of Latvia, and Hungarian University of Fine Arts — in the framework of EU4ART_differences. Organized by the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.
"Don't Dream It's Over" is the first international exhibition of the Art Academy of Latvia's professional doctoral student group: fifteen artists exploring diverse topics and solutions in different art media in their daily practice and studies. The interests of these artists vary between natural symbols and traces of history, ecofeminism and social observations; therefore, the exhibition focuses on how the qualities of traditional art integrate into a contemporary context, incorporating new techniques in the process of creating an art piece.
The exhibition "Circle of Arts" offers an opportunity to get an insight into the artistic research carried out as part of the Professional Doctorate program of the Art Academy of Latvia. The works of eleven doctoral students and four lecturers reveal the diversity of the artists' topics and techniques.
Emma Cocker is a writer and artistic researcher whose practice unfolds restlessly along the threshold between writing/art. She often works in collaboration with other artist-researchers on durational projects, where the studio-gallery or site-specific context is approached as a live laboratory for shared exploration. Drawing on some of her recent collaborations, Cocker will explore different performative, process-oriented and embodied approaches to working with and through language, sharing her evolving approach to language-based artistic research.
A mobile gravure press "Tracey" is located in the inner courtyard of the university. We have freed it from any reproduction tasks. We question it together, side by side, in the here and now with the things that are at hand. We play their stage with the material printing process and print in the discursive interplay between craft and concept, between laboratory and oracle. The two-day experimental workshop will take place on June 15 and 16, 2023. The workshop will be led by Florian Dombois and Michael Güntzburger.
A new way of knowing the world should include -or at least be accompanied by- a new way of feeling. From this sentipensante (feeling-thinking) perspective we will ask ourselves: what kind of knowledge does artistic research produce when we allow ourselves to be affected and make of our bodies, the territories and those who live in them a single common world, in a common history? What contributions do the living and undisciplined knowledge resulting from the passage from memory works to exercises of political imagination towards a sensitive offensive make to society?
Contemporary art in Vietnam is caught between Western-oriented art contexts and traditional artistic techniques. In addition, it fulfills political and social missions. The speaker will provide an insight into the structures of academic art education in Vietnam and the art discourses there and critically reflect on them with a special focus on international and intercultural exhibition projects. Vu Huy Thong studied art education and art history at the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in Hanoi, where he has been teaching art history since 2009.
Three days dedicated to artistic research will celebrate the core projects developed by EU4ART_differences Alliance through the course of these last three years, culminating in the European Research Night, on September 29, 2023. On this occasion, the first results of the CARE laboratory – Creative Artistic Research Ecosystem, launched by the Academy of Rome in partnership with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics/Roma Tre University, will be revealed.
28. September: Open Forum about the MKE LAB (at MKE)