Contemporary Research

Michael Schwab

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Artistic research is a comparatively recent development. Outside institutional definitions little work has been carried out to situate the phenomenon in a wider history of art as well as knowledge. This speculative article describes the present moment of artistic research as result of two developments: (1) a shift from notions of knowledge to notions of research, and (2), a shift from major to minor forms of making. At the same time, in line with understandings of contemporary art and as contemporary art, artistic research is not understood as historical project that unifies art and science; rather, artistic research is pitched as providing a transdisciplinary ground in which different disciplines and knowledges can enrich each other. On a historical scale, this development is seen as driven by the increased speed and complexity of our current world for which conventional knowledges offers only partial insights arriving often too late for decision-making. Building on Hans-Jörg Rheinberger’s concept of experimental systems and his notion of graphematic space, the paper suggests research to create sets of traces as proto-forms underdetermined in their aesthetic and epistemic status and, hence, beyond specific disciplinary contexts. Such space for research is understood as fundamentally artistic, also in opposition to notions of research as output-oriented types of investment. It is suggested that representation as epistemic form has been losing relevance, certainly for the arts and increasingly for the sciences. Artists are tasked to invent new, expositional forms of knowledge over and beyond representation to remain epistemically engaged in today’s fast and complex world.

type	research exposition
keywords	artistic research, Contemporary art, contemporaneity, art, science, transdiciplinarity, epistemology, aesthetics, expositionality, graphematic space
date	14/06/2023
published	14/06/2023
last modified	14/06/2023
status	published
share status	private
affiliation	Journal for Artistic Research (JAR)
copyright	Michael Schwab
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2190234/2190235
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/hub.2190234
published in	HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
portal issue	0. HUB Special Issue — Issue #0 / Spring 2023
external link	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/profile/?person=10953

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