Working Group for Artistic Research: Unislanding Artistic Research: A Decolonial Dialogue

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Výsledek na webu

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Working Group for Artistic Research: Unislanding Artistic Research: A Decolonial Dialogue

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

For many years and in many countries, artistic research has oriented towards the sciences and humanities. The art-science exchange has dominated the idea of research, and artistic fields have tried to relate/adopt/adapt for better or worse, to academic traditions. Artistic research has developed at different speeds, in different dimensions and changed direction as a result of various factors e.g. differing financial frameworks, grant opportunities, institutional frameworks, and PhD programmes (or not), producing varying qualifications in relation to different types of career paths. The ecologies of practice that define artistic research are rarely brought into dialogue in a significant format outside of the art-science career path complex. In a wilful act of self-identification, the ELIA Artistic Research Working Group set out to address the multifaceted, multiscalar character of artistic research through a unique participative methodology. Combining innovative digital platforms and theoretical frameworks emerging out of Island studies, the group sought to navigate the relational crossings between artistic disciplines (Islands), often overlooked in the art-science (Continental) exchange.Central to the discipline of Island studies are questions concerning difference, relation, hierarchy, hybridisation and disciplinary experimentation. Emerging out of this discourse, the concept of ‘archipelagic thinking’ is a postcolonial assemblage framework for thinking beyond the idea of the island as an isolated entity. It is, what Barbadian poet Kamau Braithwaite has called, a technique for ‘Unislanding’. Reflecting on ‘archipelagic thinking’ as a disciplinary method in 2011, a group of prominent Island studies scholars called for researchers to expand on the various ‘ways of being, knowing and doing—ontologies, epistemologies and methods—that illuminate island spaces as inter-related, mutually constituted and co- constructed 1. A similar statement could be made about artistic research today, where there is a need to ‘illuminate’ artistic research disciplines ‘as inter-related, mutually constituted and co-constructed’. Within this context, the ELIA Artistic Research Platform Meeting (2020) explored the framework of ‘archipelagic thinking’, as a heuristic device to provoke dialogue around the disciplinary status of artistic research. Using the digital platform Padlet over two days, participants mapped the disciplinary fields of Circus, Fine Art, Choreography, Literature, Architecture, Theatre, Film, Applied Arts, Design and Artistic Research Study. As each iteration of the methodology unfolded, it connected with other disciplinary islands around common problems and challenges. Transgressing the institutional borders that tend to police disciplines this process was not about finding consensus, but rather to take inventory and construct new glossaries beyond the usual battle for narrative hierarchy, internal to the disciplinary fields.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Working Group for Artistic Research: Unislanding Artistic Research: A Decolonial Dialogue

Popis výsledku anglicky

For many years and in many countries, artistic research has oriented towards the sciences and humanities. The art-science exchange has dominated the idea of research, and artistic fields have tried to relate/adopt/adapt for better or worse, to academic traditions. Artistic research has developed at different speeds, in different dimensions and changed direction as a result of various factors e.g. differing financial frameworks, grant opportunities, institutional frameworks, and PhD programmes (or not), producing varying qualifications in relation to different types of career paths. The ecologies of practice that define artistic research are rarely brought into dialogue in a significant format outside of the art-science career path complex. In a wilful act of self-identification, the ELIA Artistic Research Working Group set out to address the multifaceted, multiscalar character of artistic research through a unique participative methodology. Combining innovative digital platforms and theoretical frameworks emerging out of Island studies, the group sought to navigate the relational crossings between artistic disciplines (Islands), often overlooked in the art-science (Continental) exchange.Central to the discipline of Island studies are questions concerning difference, relation, hierarchy, hybridisation and disciplinary experimentation. Emerging out of this discourse, the concept of ‘archipelagic thinking’ is a postcolonial assemblage framework for thinking beyond the idea of the island as an isolated entity. It is, what Barbadian poet Kamau Braithwaite has called, a technique for ‘Unislanding’. Reflecting on ‘archipelagic thinking’ as a disciplinary method in 2011, a group of prominent Island studies scholars called for researchers to expand on the various ‘ways of being, knowing and doing—ontologies, epistemologies and methods—that illuminate island spaces as inter-related, mutually constituted and co- constructed 1. A similar statement could be made about artistic research today, where there is a need to ‘illuminate’ artistic research disciplines ‘as inter-related, mutually constituted and co-constructed’. Within this context, the ELIA Artistic Research Platform Meeting (2020) explored the framework of ‘archipelagic thinking’, as a heuristic device to provoke dialogue around the disciplinary status of artistic research. Using the digital platform Padlet over two days, participants mapped the disciplinary fields of Circus, Fine Art, Choreography, Literature, Architecture, Theatre, Film, Applied Arts, Design and Artistic Research Study. As each iteration of the methodology unfolded, it connected with other disciplinary islands around common problems and challenges. Transgressing the institutional borders that tend to police disciplines this process was not about finding consensus, but rather to take inventory and construct new glossaries beyond the usual battle for narrative hierarchy, internal to the disciplinary fields.

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů