Intellectual Birdhouse
dal 22/4/2012 al 22/4/2012
Segnalato da
22/4/2012
Intellectual Birdhouse
Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
Artistic Practice as Research, by Florian Dombois, Ute Meta Bauer, Michael Schwab and Claudia Mareis. Book launch
Artistic Practice as Research. A book by Florian Dombois, Ute Meta Bauer, Michael Schwab & Claudia Mareis. Artistic practices are manifold and highly diverse. In recent years, a claim towards research has become meaningful to many practitioners of art. "Intellectual Birdhouse" (London: Koenig Books, 2012) gives room to a number of actors to unfold their attitudes towards this claim. In this book, 'artistic research' is assumed as being independent of 'discipline', with the potential to occur in all contexts once epistemological expectations have shifted. This approach foregrounds questions concerning the type of models, terms and concepts that elucidate the processes and outcomes of epistemic-artistic practices while recalling theoretical debates steeped in tradition. Artistic research often involves productive and reflective work on and with material, and is frequently paired with testing of forms of representation other than texts that engage in open negotiations with knowledge. For this reason, artistic research may take an unexpected or even controversial course. Florian Dombois is an artist, Claudia Mareis is a designer, Ute Meta Bauer is the founding director of the MIT Program in Art, Michael Schwab is an artist and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR).