[rohrpost] WHO IS AFRAID OF ARTISTIC RESEARCH?

[cornelia sollfrank]

WHO IS AFRAID OF ARTISTIC RESEARCH?

One-day symposium about the epistemology and context of practice- 
based research

Compared with the established epistemologies of the humanities, the  
social sciences and the natural sciences, the discourse surrounding  
practice-based research in art and design is relatively young and  
includes a range of diverse approaches. What practice-based research  
is or is not, is highly controversial. Does it mean that the  
researcher investigates his/her own (visual) practice, or rather,  
that visual practice is a means of investigation? Other questions  
arise in the context of 'normal science' and the knowledge economy:  
what are the goals of such research?, and what is the desired  
outcome?  What are the connecting lines between art and science,  
between practice and theory? And last but not least: why would an  
artist want to do 'research'?

Practice-based research can be understood as a process, evolving from  
and changing through the practice undertaken by the individual  
researcher. The challenge here is that research (still) can be  
undertaken in releative freedom. Entering the arena of ongoing  
discussion, negotiation and re-adjustment, and engaging in the  
discourse about methodology essentially contributes to constituting  
this freedom.

Speakers:
Laurence Rassel, artist/curator (constantvzw.org, Brussels)
Simon Sheikh, curator/critic (Copenhagen, Malmö Art Academy)
Dr. Dieter Lesage, philosopher (Berlin/ Erasmushogeschool Brussel)
Prof. Nigel Johnson, artist/researcher (Dundee University)
Chair: Dr. Ken Neil, artist/researcher (Glasgow School of Art)

Screening:
A portrait of the artist as a worker (rmx.), Ina Wudtke, Berlin

Organised by: Lindsay Brown and Cornelia Sollfrank

For detailed information about the programme and the speakers, please  
visit our website:
http://www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk/Research/Events/ArtisticResearch.html

The event is free, but advance booking is required: 01382-909900

Dundee Contemporary Arts · Nethergate 152 · Dundee DD1 4DX