Event on Artistic Research Methods and the Articulation of Art and Society
An event on Artistic Research Methods and the Articulation of Art and Society took place on April 5th, 2024, at the Textile Museum in Tilburg.
Artistic research makes the relationship between art and society permeable. Rather than being confined to the private realm of the lone artist or the circuit of art institutions, artistic research opens up its practice to the public domain. Its methods become part of a collective process of exploration and re-imagining.
The symposium What Methods Do explored how these methods play a role in producing knowledge, shifting boundaries between disciplines, and reconfiguring the agency of art in a societal context. It posed the question: What do methods do? How can they be used? How do they address the urgencies of a world needing new perspectives?
The symposium was structured into three sessions, each addressing particular aspects and implications in using artistic research methods. A group of internationally active makers and scholars addressed the role of methods in interdisciplinary endeavours, activist practices, and the agency of technology, among other concerns.
One of the participants was Dr. Danae Theodoridou, a performance maker and researcher. Her work focuses on social imaginaries, the practice of democracy, and the way that art contributes to the emergence of socio-political alternatives. She teaches at Fontys Academy of the Arts (NL), curates practice-led research projects, and presents and publishes her work internationally. She is the co-author of The Practice of Dramaturgy: Working on Actions in Performance (Valiz, 2017) and the author of PUBLICING: Practising Democracy Through Performance (Nissos, 2022).
Full documentation and more information can be found below.
Research Catalogue – Artistic Research Methods
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