Reclaiming Artistic Research

This expanded second edition of Reclaiming Artistic Research explores artistic research in dialogue with 24 artists worldwide, reclaiming it from academic associations of the term. Embracing artists' dynamic engagement with other fields, it foregrounds the material, spatial, embodied, organizational, choreographic, and technological ways of knowing and unknowing specific to contemporary artistic inquiry. The second edition features a new text by the author and four new artist dialogues to reflect on the changing stakes of artistic research in the wake of the global pandemic, a widespread reckoning with social justice, the growing role of artificial intelligence, and the urgent reality of climate change.LUCY COTTER (*1973, Ireland) is a writer, curator, and artist. She was Curator of the Dutch Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017, and Curator in Residence at Oregon Center for Contemporary Art 2021–22. The inaugural director of the Master Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Cotter has lectured internationally, most recently at Portland State University.She holds a project residency at Stelo Arts and Culture Foundation 2023-24.

CoverTitle PageContentsARTISTIC RESEARCH IN A WORLD ON FIREMAKING AS FUTURE SURVIVALSOUNDING OUT THE LAWHEALING AS BECOMINGHISTORY AS A QUESTIONFACT AS FICTIONEMBODIED KNOWLEDGELANGUAGE AS FILMMAKING AS TRANSLATIONART AS NON-KNOWLEDGEPERFORMANCE AS PHILOSOPHYSEEING AS UNKNOWINGSOUND AS KNOWLEDGEREHEARSAL AS A MODE OF BEINGBEYOND LANGUAGEBECOMING THE ARCHIVEKNOWLEDGE AS PRODUCTIONTHE MALLEABILITY OF SPACE AND TIMERESEARCH AS PLAYBETWEEN THE VIRTUAL AND THE REALWORLDING MATTERFUTURE ECOLOGIESWRITING AS EXPERIMENTTHE FUTURE OF INSTITUTIONSTECHNOLOGY AS CARERECLAIMING ARTISTIC RESEARCHAcknowledgmentsBiographiesColophon