The research is based on a set of individual interviews with art researchers associated with art colleges in Brno. The aim of the interviews was to explore the approaches and strategies that the artists choose in their artistic research and to find common features and differences. The interviews showed that artistic research is a distinct tool that has the potential to expand our knowledge and create space for interdisciplinary collaboration. Artists use a variety of approaches and strategies, from archival research to social and political activism, and their work is characterised by a personal approach and engagement with the object under investigation. Doctoral studies and artistic research are a means for artists to deepen their theoretical knowledge and expand their creative work. Artistic research is motivated by both intrinsic factors (desire for knowledge, development of theoretical knowledge) and extrinsic factors (institutional support from universities). The artists use artistic research as a tool to develop their work, to connect with reality, and for its practical implications. What is important is the continuity of creative work, personal experience and direct participation in projects. Artistic research is seen as a way to contribute to the current state of knowledge and as an emancipatory tool.
- Artistic research is a unique tool that expands our knowledge and creates space for interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Artists use a range of different approaches and strategies in their research that cannot be unified into a single classification.
- Artistic research is a means for artists to deepen their theoretical knowledge.
- Artistic research is seen as an emancipatory tool.
- Artistic research is characterised by freedom in the approach to research.
- Motivations for using the medium of artistic research are twofold: the intrinsic motivations of artists and external institutional circumstances.