SAR SIG subgroup: Artistic Essaying Research and Pedagogy Group by Haris pellapaisiotis

Artistic Essaying Research and Pedagogy Group Jez Coram Emily Huurdeman Expanded, hybrid and experimental forms of essaying in practice-led research and pedagogy Central Questions for the group: 1. To what extent should we expand the essay through hybrid and experimental forms? 2. How should we produce essays in our current personal-aesthetic-political-technological conditions of crises? 3. To what extent can hybrid and experimental forms of essaying act as practice-led artistic research? 4. How can essaying as practice-led artistic research inform pedagogical approaches? The intention for this group is to bring together practitioners and theorists working and researching in the arts, or related fields, to consider and develop creative critical approaches to hybrid and experimental forms of essaying based on the above questions (as a starting point). The aim is to develop an international collective of individuals concerned with the potentiality of creative critical essaying, and how these hybrid and experimental forms of essaying may exist as practice-led artistic research and praxis. Then, how these praxes may inform pedagogical approaches. At its core the group is intended to be inclusive, accessible, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and even off-disciplinary to encourage tangential and lateral associations and pathways through individual and collaborative praxis. When / where: Five online meetings a year (Zoom or Teams), and one potential face to face meeting as part of the conference Provisional structure for meetings: 1 or 2 talks, presentations, or shows of work in progress (Individual or collaboration), based on group refinement of the research questions / areas of inquiry, followed by discussion. How: I would take up the role of organising the meetings and admin for the group. I would be looking for someone to share responsibility for the group and support facilitation. Potential contributions: As a group agree plans for collective exhibitions, conference talks and papers, articles, and special issues.

Essaying as method/ology

Proposal:

Society of Artistic Research

Special Interst Group:

Artistic Essaying Research and Pedagogy Group

Biography:

Ana Cristina Pansera de Araujo

PhD Candidate, University of Basque Country, ES

Networks and affections in cultural production in unconventional urban spaces

Emily Huurdeman

PD candidate, Fontys, Professorship Artistic Connective Practices, NL

Essaying as Colelctive Performative Practice

Jo O'Brien

PhD Candidate, University of Applied Arts Vienna, AT

Necessary Confusion: Making Queer-Crip Access

Peter Thomas

PhD candidate, Middlesex University, London, UK

Meldereiter: The Essay and visual arts practice

As artistic researchers, PhD candidates, and university instructors we need interdisciplinary method/ologies that can engage uncertainty and complexity across a wide variety of pre-supposed (or imposed) disciplinary boundaries. For the AIE International Congress on Art, Research, and Education we propose to encapsulate our ongoing research on essaying-as-method/ology in the form of a 15-20 minute video essay which can be made available online and/or through a remote presentation.

Historically speaking the essay has evolved as a genre of writing, but the essay has also been adopted by many different artistic disciplines, giving rise to video, audio, somatic, and performative essays. This adaptation across multiple disciplines has turned the essay from a discreet production into a practice (and methodology) of essaying.

The essay has a long legacy of contradiction. On the one hand it is a highly conventionalised educational form, (apparently) unambiguous and objective, and built on formalised skills which can be assessed. On the other hand, the essay is a means of experimentation used to explore subjectivities, doubt, intellectual conviction, and personal expression – it is born of practices and knowledges gathered from our surroundings, a deskilled, patched together methodology attuned to uncertainty and complexity

To essay is to accept flaws, ambiguity, and happenstance. Essaying looks for cracks, paradoxes, and frictions – essaying does not strive for a uniform or aesthetic outcome, it is fragmented and open ended. Essaying breaks with teachings, skills, and acquired conventions, but also draws on them, in subversion.

As a method/ology, essaying offers the opportunity to engage the heterogenous desires and messy relational forms that arise when working across/under/against disciplinary boundaries and expectations.

"The way in which the essay appropriates concepts is most easily comparable to the behavior of a man who is obliged, in a foreign country, to speak that country's language instead of patching it together from its elements, as he did in school. He will read without a dictionary."

(Theodor W. Adorno, The Essay as Form, 1958)

OPEN CALL proposal

IV AIE International Congress (Art, Research and Edu

https://taiarts.com/en/grupo-de-investigacion/iv-congreso-aie/

The research areas and themes of the conference are:

Art-Based Research
Interdisciplinarity applied to artistic creation
University teaching in arts
Employability in the arts
Art as a tool for social change

Video fragments that will be used for the 20 min. screening:

Tip

Tip

OPEN CALL proposal

IV AIE International Congress (Art, Research and Edu