29-04-2010

30-04-2010

Switzerland, Zurich

Posted by: emel-abora

Category: Other

Field: Other

Source http://www.elia-artschools.org/news/index

Meeting organized by Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) under the auspices of ELIA

As artistic research is still a rather young discipline, most of the debates surrounding it have so far been concerned with questions of definition: the new field has to be mapped in both epistemological and aesthetic terms, and established politically and institutionally. Consequently, the issue of quality has often remained in the background – although it arises regularly as soon as PhD research or applications for research funding have to be evaluated. Therefore, a canonical body of artistic research projects has yet to emerge. References to such projects are rare and in many instances, accessibility to their documentation proves to be difficult. The connection between the debate on quality and concrete examples of artistic research projects is still rather tenuous.

The programme includes workshops on case studies and theoreticla reflections. Through a discussion of examples from all disciplines, the conference hopes to achieve a better understanding and more general criteria of what constitutes excellence in artistic research.

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