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.
recent activities
SIG 8: Facilitating as Creative Practice
(2025)
Adelheid Mers, Janne-Camilla Lyster, Marija Griniuk
The SIG Facilitating took shape at the 2023 SAR Conference in Trondheim, after observing over an extended time how frequently artists, artistic researchers and even policy makers refer to facilitation when describing interactions with audiences, communities and research partners. Finding ways to examine such facilitating processes is crucial to the work under way.
We know that facilitating practices exist widely in interactive and community based art, and in theater and the performing arts, for example using games, props and improvisation. There are intersections with pedagogy and professional facilitation and coaching, with at least the latter understood as prizing outcomes over processes. The SIG Facilitating asks: What does it mean to facilitate as part of artistic research? Why is this focus emerging now? How are we drawing on a greater web?
Organized by Marija Griniuk, Postdoctoral researcher at Vilnius Academy of Arts, and director at Sami Center for Contemporary Art in Norway; Janne-Camilla Lyster, Associate Professor, Oslo National Academy of the Arts; and Adelheid Mers, Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (coordinator).
Contact: sigfacilitating@gmail.com
SCULPTURE YOU
(2025)
ANNA VIOLA HALLBERG, Ami Skanberg
Sculpture You is an act of becoming, an ongoing process of altering your senses and to reflect upon the attention, respect and care you invest while walking the sculpture trail. During the first act you transform into a temporary sculpture. During the second act you perform a ritual in front of each sculpture on the trail. For each of the acts, read through instructions prior to doing the movements.
Let's embark on a journey of wellness together
(2025)
Diana Ferro
SWEAT - YoNoSudoBrillo
Two weeks workshop held in Benidorm, Spain, in August 2024. In the context of EASA, European Architecture Students Assembly 2024 event. Tutored by Diana Ferro and Angelo Ciccaglione.
๐ผ๐โ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ท๐๐ถ๐ธ๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐พ๐๐. ๐ฟ๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐ท๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ฝ๐พ๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ป ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฝ๐๐.
In a sauna, people meet strangers and exchange stories while absorbing heat being naked and sweaty. In this workshop we brought the sauna to a step further: we absorbed heat, stories, gestures, words, objects, skills, dreams and sweat them out to other people, re-enacting what we have learned. Also naked, why not.
We learnt how to live, how to breathe, how to make a kebab, how to embody old wisdom, how to tie shoes the proper way. All you need is a fan, a towel and a body. A kebab stick, a drink, some snackies. Participants developed a deeper perspective on what it means to operate within a complex identity such as the city and gained skills to open their own kebab shop.
recent publications
Om prosjektet Jording med (blรฅ)leire
(2025)
Sigrid Espelien
I doktorgradsprosjektet Jording med (blรฅ)leire har jeg jobba med kunstneriske prosesser og รธvelser som knytter oss tettere pรฅ blรฅleira i landskapet. Gjennom seks รฅrs utdannelse innenfor det keramiske kunstfeltet og kunsthรฅndverk2 ble vi aldri introdusert for leire ute i naturen som en del av undervisningen. Vi lรฆrte รฅ lage forskjellige leirer ved hjelp av rรฅstoffer som kaolin, kvarts, pipeleire og chamotte fra innkjรธpt pulver i sekker blandet med vann, men var aldri ute og gravde leire og prosesserte denne selv. Vi jobbet med importerte leirer der sintringsintervall, grovhetsgrad, farge etter brenning og krymp-prosent var printet pรฅ plastpakningen. Leirene var homogene og klare til รฅ modellere med, og man kunne stole pรฅ at den alltid var lik fra pakke til pakke. Keramikk- og kunstfeltets gjengse oppfattelse av leire som et stabilt universelt materiale, som er relativt lik uansett hvor man kjรธper den fra, blir i dette prosjektet satt i kontrast til det spesifikke og skiftende i landskapet, leira og menneskene involvert. Denne situerte kunnskapsproduksjonen i det kunstneriske doktorgradsprosjektet er et av de potensielle bidragene til fagfeltet.
Utendรธrs keramikk
(2025)
Sigrid Espelien
Brent blรฅleire fra Feiring bruk avdeling Kulmoen, opprinnelig fra Alnabru, blandet med sagflis fra KHiOs treverksted, chamotte og breavsetningssand. Del av relieff til kunst i offentlig rom oppdrag, som feilbrente. Her kuttet igjennom med diamantsag pรฅ KHiOs keramikkversted.