Playing Artistic Research

Author(s):

Catarina Almeida(presenting / submitting)Paulo Mesquita(presenting)

Conference:

ECER 2016

Network:

29. Research on Arts Education

Format:

Video

Session Information

29 SES 11, Artistic Research

Paper/Video Session

Time:

2016-08-25

17:15-18:45

Room:

NM- J114

Chair:

Catarina Silva Martins

Contribution

The framework where this video lays on meets an international topic of discussion that is presently affecting many art schools and universities of art. Artistic research, as a research issue itself, is conducting the policies of art learning institutions across Europe, United States and Australia, as well as it is shaping emerging subjectivities of contemporary artists proving this is a matter that expands beyond the boarders of the academic territory. Artistic research, in its complexity and variety of approaches, is better understood in this converging (and conflicting) positioning calling on both the artistic and the academic dimensions. As a result, the subjectivity of the artist researcher and the work that such subjectivity undertakes ought to be accessed, analyzed and appreciated with this hybridity in mind.

The project we bring here with this sample video is also a converging one: it is the documentation of an artistic practice of a musician - the practice of one of the presenters -, a practice that simultaneusly acquires the outlines and the features of an artistic research since it integrates and is actually the focus of a doctoral investigation. The documentation of this doctoral investigation is a product of its own right, art-wise, of which this video is just a sample, and it triggers the reflexive thought and critical inquiry on the broader sense of artistic research that has been the investigative concern of the other presenter.

Method

The method used in the development of the project is the video recording and editing, in the presentation is the video display. The documentation this recording and editing enables is presented both as an artistic product and as a platform that enhances reflexivity and discussion not only on the particular practice it documents, but more widely in a contemporary notion of artisti research.

Expected Outcomes

This project aims at engaging in the topic of artistic research without relying in mediated and third person discourses that usually only address the topic from a theoretical point of view. It intends to discuss and to problematize the idea and the possibilities of artistic research from a specific case of a musician that is researching his way of playing and seeks to frame and present his work as a doctoral research and artistic research. Documentation plays here a role of not only registering, but of constructing thought alongside the practice. All and all, this idea of documentation already suggests a redefinition of the role of documentation in the context of artistic research, looking at it as one of the core aspects to consider when talking about that phenomeon (or disciplinary field).

References

Arlander, A. (2012). Performing landscape: Notes on site-specific work and artistic research (texts 2001-2011). Acta Scenica 28. University of the Arts, Theatre Academy, Helsinki. Bärtås,M.(2013). Work stories revisited.In Hannula, M., Kaila, J., Palmer, R. & Sarje,K. (Eds.). Artists as researchers – A new paradigm for art education in Europe (pp.105-‐115). Helsinki: Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts. Borgdorff, H. (2012). The conflict of the faculties: Perspectives on artistic research and academia. Leiden: Leiden University Press. Hirvi-‐Ijäs, M. (Ed.) (2008). Art academy as university – Finnish Academy of Fine Arts 160 years. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Kaila, J. & Slager, H. (Eds.) (2012). Doing research – nº3. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Wesseling, J. (Ed.). See it again, say it again: The artist as researcher (pp. 41-‐49). Amsterdam: Valiz Antennae.

Author Information

Catarina Almeida (presenting / submitting)

FBAUP

Matosinhos

Paulo Mesquita (presenting)

Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto

Gaia

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