Reclaiming Artistic Research

This expanded second edition of Reclaiming Artistic Research explores artistic research in dialogue with 24 artists worldwide, reclaiming it from academic associations of the term. Embracing artists' dynamic engagement with other fields, it foregrounds the material, spatial, embodied, organizational, choreographic, and technological ways of knowing and unknowing specific to contemporary artistic inquiry. The second edition features a new text by the author and four new artist dialogues to reflect on the changing stakes of artistic research in the wake of the global pandemic, a widespread reckoning with social justice, the growing role of artificial intelligence, and the urgent reality of climate change.







LUCY COTTER (*1973, Ireland) is a writer, curator, and artist. She was Curator of the Dutch Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017, and Curator in Residence at Oregon Center for Contemporary Art 2021–22. The inaugural director of the Master Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Cotter has lectured internationally, most recently at Portland State University. 

She holds a project residency at Stelo Arts and Culture Foundation 2023-24.



Cover

Title Page

Contents

ARTISTIC RESEARCH IN A WORLD ON FIRE

MAKING AS FUTURE SURVIVAL

SOUNDING OUT THE LAW

HEALING AS BECOMING

HISTORY AS A QUESTION

FACT AS FICTION

EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE

LANGUAGE AS FILM

MAKING AS TRANSLATION

ART AS NON-KNOWLEDGE

PERFORMANCE AS PHILOSOPHY

SEEING AS UNKNOWING

SOUND AS KNOWLEDGE

REHEARSAL AS A MODE OF BEING

BEYOND LANGUAGE

BECOMING THE ARCHIVE

KNOWLEDGE AS PRODUCTION

THE MALLEABILITY OF SPACE AND TIME

RESEARCH AS PLAY

BETWEEN THE VIRTUAL AND THE REAL

WORLDING MATTER

FUTURE ECOLOGIES

WRITING AS EXPERIMENT

THE FUTURE OF INSTITUTIONS

TECHNOLOGY AS CARE

RECLAIMING ARTISTIC RESEARCH

Acknowledgments

Biographies

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