Call for Papers: Art and Research<\/p>\n
Deadline: 1 September 2017<\/p>\n
It is true to say that research has been linked traditionally solely to
\nsciences as a form of knowledge par excellence. Martin Heidegger spoke in
\nthis sense of research as the essence of science and a defining phenomenon
\nof modernity. Theodor W. Adorno placed research alongside instrumental
\nreason, and therefore contrary to art. Even Gilles Deleuze defined art as a
\nway of thinking with sensations and emotions that had nothing to do with
\nscience and its functions. However, the fact is that, for some years, we
\nhave also been talking of artistic research, occasioned by many and varied
\nreasons that are studied in this call.<\/p>\n
It is also true to say that we do not always talk of artistic research in a
\nsingle way, but rather that there is a diversity of approaches regarding
\nits nature. None of these approaches is exempt from reasons and arguments,
\nin some cases exclusive and in others perhaps too all-embracing. We can
\nassert the classification once made by Christopher Frayling and that Henk
\nBorgdorff then qualified distinguishing between three types of artistic
\nresearch, summarized in three simple formulae: research for art, research
\non art and, finally, research in art, seen as the most genuine type of
\nartistic research.<\/p>\n
Asking ourselves about artistic research is also to question what we
\nunderstand by knowledge. The answer to this question cannot leave us
\nindifferent, whether we are speaking from academia, from professional
\npractice or from the same society and culture that shapes us. Casting a
\nlight on this question means, in turn, not just epistemological and
\nmethodological questions, but also ontological questions on the artistic
\ncondition itself.<\/p>\n
Inseparable from the question on artistic research are other questions,
\nsuch as what type of knowledge does it offer and what work methods make it
\npossible? In what way is it different inside or outside academic contexts?
\nHow do education strategies and policies interfere in the clarification of
\nthe associated debates? Now that the term is being called for both by
\nuniversities and by artistic practice and institutions, the institutional
\nstance from which the different approaches to the nature of artistic
\nresearch are being argued is even more relevant.<\/p>\n
For some years now, especially in northern Europe, artistic research has
\nbegun to be recognized institutionally. It has been welcomed in support
\ncentres for artistic practices and in academia, where university studies
\nhave been rolled out and public artistic research projects conducted. At
\nthe same time, a prolific debate is being generated in which artistic
\nproduction plays a fundamental role in research processes. The
\ninterrelation between art, science, technology and society that we have
\nbeen mapping in the Artnodes journal over the last fifteen years gives good
\naccount of the way in which the different spheres of knowledge have worked
\ntogether and interwoven their practice throughout history, and this dossier
\non artistic research aims to continue to feed these interrelations.<\/p>\n
Topics<\/p>\n
In this issue of Artnodes, we are putting out a public call for articles
\nthat explore the following lines of topic and debate:<\/p>\n
Organizational, institutional and political contexts for artistic research<\/p>\n
Artistic research inside and outside academia (artistic production centres,
\nschools, arts centres, practices outside any institution, extitutional
\nresearch practices, at local, national or international level).<\/p>\n
We are open to receiving articles that research contexts for artistic
\nresearch, strategic policies that foster it, or case studies on specific
\ninstitutions or programmes. Another topic is research relating to the
\ndifferent ways of publicizing research results, whether this is through
\nconferences, symposia, festivals, exhibitions or online, offline, academic
\nor alternative publications, that tackles and enables the expansion of the
\nways of showing the results of artistic research.<\/p>\n
Theoretical perspectives for and on artistic research<\/p>\n
Taking into account that the aims and questions of artistic research are
\nvery broad, this line opens up a debate on the various perspectives from
\nwhich to focus artistic research, and it involves highlighting and
\nanalysing epistemological theories and frameworks that make it possible.<\/p>\n
It also includes the problematization of specific cases in relations
\nbetween these theoretical perspectives and artistic research, as well as
\nthe paradoxes created in research practice from the arts sphere due to its
\ndisciplinary argumentation or its applied development methodologies. At all
\ntimes taking into account the role of the written text as the vehicle of
\nresearch.<\/p>\n
Assessment of artistic research<\/p>\n
The aim is to tackle questions such as the place of assessment, the space
\nwhere the research is exposed to its legitimization. They will include
\nreflections on their certification spaces, revisions of the affinities and
\ndisjuncts between the in-disciplinary spaces and the settings of
\nlegitimization of the research. However, also included will be the
\ncontributions on the existence or otherwise of a suitable inherent space
\nfor the specificities of artistic research, and the terminological
\ndistinctions that we use to describe it or classify it: from the strictly
\nacademic sphere, from artistic practice, from disciplinarity, etc.<\/p>\n
Artistic research projects<\/p>\n
In light of the flood of theses submitted recently because of the Gabilondo
\nDecree, we are in a highly suitable situation to be able to show a series
\nof references to artistic research works that, on the one hand, enable us
\nto deploy a taxonomy of relevant projects, and, on the other, open up a
\ndebate on what we consider to be an artistic research project. To this
\neffect, articles will be included that question the current definitions of
\nartistic research, their references to the scientific formulation of
\nknowledge, their methodologies and the documentation of their processes and
\nresults.<\/p>\n
Submission process<\/p>\n
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