The Research Catalogue (RC) is a non-commercial, collaboration and publishing platform for artistic research provided by the
Society for Artistic Research. The RC is free to use for artists and
researchers. It
serves also as a backbone for teaching purposes, student assessment, peer review workflows and research funding administration. It strives to be
an open space for experimentation and exchange.
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Matter and Nothingness: How corporeality is related to the failure of the otherwordly
(2025)
Massimo Barbero
This research is rooted in nihilism, exploring how the contrast between materiality and spirituality leads to an uncomfortable way of percieving existence.
What does it mean to be unable to believe in "what's beyond"? What role does the body play in such an issue?
The starting point is a deeply philosophical debate. Through art and numerous attempts it tries to unravel itself.
Exploring the Musical Evolution of Sheila Jordan
(2025)
Hyejung Jung
Sheila Jordan, an important female singer in the history of jazz vocals, and an exploration of her life and musical characteristics.
Among signs – propositions from a typographic practice
(2025)
Åse Huus
This exposition gathers a series of visual and linguistic investigations in which signs, form, and the space between them construct expressions that invite multiple interpretations. Here, propositions are understood as attempts, movements, and modes of thought. Between sign and form, a space emerges where meaning can be brought into play – where rhythm, structure, wonder and quietness may interact as an expanded practice of seeing, reading, and listening.
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Hyper - Diffractive Photographic Diptychs in the Queer Borderlands of Drag and Wrestling
(2025)
Carl-Mikael Björk
An RC adaptation of the project as presented at the Hugarflug conference, Reykjavik 2025.
The presentation takes its point of departure in a photographic artistic research project that moves within the queer borderlands between drag and wrestling – two performative expressions that, through eccentric personas, embodied gestures, and DIY culture, destabilise notions of sex, gender, and sexuality. I approach these practices as arenas of performativity, where the hypermasculine and the hyperfeminine are not positioned in opposition, but meet in mutual tension and unstable, embodied renegotiation.
Through photography, in reciprocal movement with essayistic writing, I explore images of identity in motion. The presentation is part of a diffractive methodology, where photographs neither illustrate nor represent, but emerge as entangled with fiction, memory, theory, and philosophy as components of a broader research apparatus. An unstable interplay emerges, where photography and language generate tacit knowledge – a possible, partial and situated enactment of how identity and the body are (re)presented and displaced.
The project is diffractively grounded in the thinking of Barad, Butler, and Haraway on research apparatuses, performativity, and situated knowledge – with particular attention to the camera’s and photographer’s access to spaces where identity is performatively negotiated.
