Between river low and mountain high. Artistic research and what characterizes it
- Authors: Shirokostup O.1
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Affiliations:
- Garage Academy
- Issue: Vol 34, No 1 (2024)
- Pages: 63-76
- Section: ARTICLES
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/0869-5377/article/view/290187
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17323/0869-5377-2024-1-63-74
- ID: 290187
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Abstract
This article presents an overview of the origin of the concept of “artistic research” and the discussions around it that unfolded in the artistic and academic environment. Artistic research emerged within the framework of the academy, but at the same time, as many critics emphasize with whom the author of the article agrees, it should not be colonized by it.
The article examines the models of conducting artistic research with reference to the Mika Hannula’s, Juha Suoranta’s and Tere Vadén’s Artistic Research Methodology and identifies general patterns that characterize this practice in all its diversity. The basic formula presents artistic research as an artistic process to which contextual, interpretative and conceptual work is added, aimed at argumentation of a point of view. In any case the practices of artistic research are supposed to be performative.
The author of the article offers a look at the course of artistic research as a process extended over time, including alternating phases and various “points of visibility”. Artistic research can be presented in the institutional space if it coincides with the program and objectives of a particular institution, but at the same time it can be carried out independently. The finished project demonstrated within the framework of the institution may be preceded by a long research period remaining “behind the scenes”, or some intermediate research results may be presented in a variety of formats.
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About the authors
Olga Shirokostup
Garage Academy
Author for correspondence.
Email: shirokostup@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow
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