WHO IS AFRAID OF ARTISTIC RESEARCH?
One-day symposium about the epistemology and context of practice-
based research
Compared with the established epistemologies of the humanities, the
social sciences and the natural sciences, the discourse surrounding
practice-based research in art and design is relatively young and
includes a range of diverse approaches. What practice-based research
is or is not, is highly controversial. Does it mean that the
researcher investigates his/her own (visual) practice, or rather,
that visual practice is a means of investigation? Other questions
arise in the context of 'normal science' and the knowledge economy:
what are the goals of such research?, and what is the desired
outcome? What are the connecting lines between art and science,
between practice and theory? And last but not least: why would an
artist want to do 'research'?
Practice-based research can be understood as a process, evolving from
and changing through the practice undertaken by the individual
researcher. The challenge here is that research (still) can be
undertaken in releative freedom. Entering the arena of ongoing
discussion, negotiation and re-adjustment, and engaging in the
discourse about methodology essentially contributes to constituting
this freedom.
Speakers:
Laurence Rassel, artist/curator (constantvzw.org, Brussels)
Simon Sheikh, curator/critic (Copenhagen, Malmö Art Academy)
Dr. Dieter Lesage, philosopher (Berlin/ Erasmushogeschool Brussel)
Prof. Nigel Johnson, artist/researcher (Dundee University)
Chair: Dr. Ken Neil, artist/researcher (Glasgow School of Art)
Screening:
A portrait of the artist as a worker (rmx.), Ina Wudtke, Berlin
Organised by: Lindsay Brown and Cornelia Sollfrank
For detailed information about the programme and the speakers, please
visit our website:
http://www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk/Research/Events/ArtisticResearch.html
The event is free, but advance booking is required: 01382-909900
Dundee Contemporary Arts · Nethergate 152 · Dundee DD1 4DX
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