Patricia de Vries (FULL)
On research question articulation
03-11-2022 / 17.30-19.30
How to move from a general topic of interest to a topic of inquiry? And how to narrow your topic of inquiry to a research question? Research questions are the questions you answer in or through your work. These questions give structure to your work. The questions you ask are related to the research you do and the work you want to create.
During this seminar, you aim to move from a general topic of interest to a more (or less) specified and framed research question that will help you structure your thinking, doing, making and researching.
Ilse van Rijn (FULL)
Imagine writing/writing imagination
24-11-2022 / 17.30-19.30
Writing is a practice. Writing channels thoughts, it communicates ideas, and it has a materiality of its own. Writing is violent and exclusive; it is caring and gentle. Writing constructs new worlds, imagination is a way to share those worlds. Tapping into the imagination, this session will engage with the materiality of writing as a research method to say what cannot be said but has to be said anyways.
Gabrielle Kennedy (FULL)
Journalism and art: complementary and collaborative storytelling
08-12-2022 / 17.30-19.30
It’s nothing new exactly, but more and more artists are employing journalistic techniques – using reporting, interviews, public records, documentary footage, and photo captions to create work that addresses social, economic, and political topics - topics that traditionally fell within the purview of journalism.
Some artists, like most journalists, define their goal as capturing a type of truth, even though one does not usually look to art for factual truths. Art is rich with stories and histories, and art can give important information about who we are as people - our customs, our words, our values, and our beliefs. In this way, art works as a roadmap of our humanity.
So while art meanders beyond verifiable facts – to nourish the emotions - in this session we will explore how artists and designers can understand journalistic tools from how they order their material to narrative storytelling techniques. We will explore how a blurred boundary between art and journalism can do more for truth than a cold, reported view on the world, and how rather an artist’s way of giving a “view on the view,” helps us to question our assumptions about how we perceive the world.
Tom Vandeputte (FULL)
What is critique?
12-01-2023 / 17.30-19.30
The concept of critique implies a questioning of itself. What is at stake in this questioning is not only how critique may be defined or understood, but also its relation to the present moment. The question “what is critique” is accompanied by another one: does the concept of critique still concern us today? Or has critique, as some would say, lost its purchase on the present? This seminar proposes to address this question through a discussion of the relation between critique and crisis. Critique is understood here as a mode of inquiry, a thinking “from crisis and toward crisis” (Christoph Menke). The questions guiding this mode of inquiry are twofold: are the foundations of the world as it is still tenable? And can we still rely on given models to transform the status quo – or, at least, find a way out? Taking the connection of critique and crisis as a point of departure, the seminar will discuss what today’s multiple, overlapping crises mean for our research, thinking and practice.
Flavia Dzodan (FULL)
A research diary of your own
23-02-2023 / 17.30-19.30
"Virginia Wolf famously said that every writer should have a room of her own and the money to live off her work. Along the same vein, I believe every artist and designer should keep a research diary of their own. A research diary or journal is a way to keep a detailed history of research as it unfolds. It provides a reference point for when thoughts changed during the process. It allows to trace the development of research skills and it affords a place to reflect on the work done. In this session we will explore the different ways in which to keep a research diary."
Paula Albuquerque (FULL)
From interdisciplinarity/transdisciplinarity to transmediality in artistic research
30-03-2023 / 17.30-19.30
An artist/scholar’s hybrid approach to making and thinking has, for years now, been associated with the field of artistic research, a polemical, forever-emerging discipline, despite efforts at its academicization, with its methodologies still considered unorthodox. When artistic researchers take the freedom to relate to different fields by association, their areas of thought escape categorisation, while incorporating immaterial forms of knowledge in artistic material enquiries. This requires the opening of a space for new methodologies of research and knowledge production, rather than continuing the effort to fit artistic research into a disciplinary format with well-defined limits and strict production formulas. Since artistic research is anchored on material experience rather than external observation, this space is not only interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary, but in fact transmedial, where text is considered a part of the work and discourse a technological medium.
Louise Schouwenberg (FULL)
The thinking hands and the reflective mind, on experimenting with the fluxes and flows of materials
20-04-2023 / 17.30-19.30
As all who have (partly) built their practices around materials know well, the experimentation with materials can be utterly frustrating before it becomes rewarding. It requires an open attitude to let the experimental process dictate its own erratic course and it requires the practitioner’s reflective talents to understand and influence the unpredictable process. In recent times, many philosophical theories on materials and materiality have seen the light of day. These will become the starting points for presentations and short interviews with artists and designers about their making processes (names interviewees in due time).
Femke Herregraven (FULL)
Speculation and porosity
11-05-2023 / 17.30-19.30
More info tbc
