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Seminar 4

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The seminar is about relationships in artistic research. Based on the research fellows’ research projects, endeavours are made to map relations and how they influence artistic processes and results in the different phases of projects. Experiences with leading and carrying out complex artistic projects are shared. We recommend you to prepare and reflect on the seminar in dialogue with your supervisor(s).

Venue and arrival

The seminar takes place in Bergen at the University of Bergen´s Læringsarena (Nygårdsgaten 5) and Bymuseet i Bergen: The School museum (Lille Øvregaten 38). 

Please note that each participant must organise own travel and stay.

Learning outcomes

On completing of the seminar, the fellow:

  • can formulate research questions and plan the artistic research, with focus on artistic processes and results 
  • can work on complex questions, and challenge established discourses and practices in the field

Working methods

Seminar with preparatory assignments, lectures, presentations in varied formats, plenary discussions and discussions in groups. Group work sessions led by the research fellows themselves. Research fellows must have read the literature on the mandatory reading list and prepared a text and presentation in a relevant format. During the seminar, research fellows must give a presentation and play an active part in the discussion of other research fellows’ projects. A total workload of 75–90 hours, corresponding to 3 credits.

Seminar leaders and contributors

Seminar leaders:

Contributors and moderators:
 

 

Preparations and seminar program

Preparations

Preparation for the group work sessions:

  • With the seminar theme `Relations´ in mind, define one or more issues or questions related to your project, the artistic processes, or the PhD results that you want to discuss in the group work session. 
  • Submit material that introduces us to your project and the issues or questions you have decided to discuss with your group. If the material is a text, then the maximum lenght should be 250 words. Should you choose to submit a video or audio introduction, then the maximum length is 3 minutes. Your contribution will be shared with all the participants one week before the seminar. Language: English. Deadline: 27 August at 12:00. Send to: pku@hkdir.no. 
  • Prepare a 10-minute presentation for the seminar that introduces us to your project and the issues or questions. The presentation should be related to the submitted material and open up for discussions.

General preparations:

  • Watch the pre-recorded lecture on this page. 
  • Read/watch the mandatory references on the reference list.
  • Read/hear/see the introductions from the other fellows. We expect that you familiarize yourself especially with the submissions from the fellows in your group. Material will be uploaded after 27 August, and the link to this exposition will be shared by E-mail (only participants in the seminar will have access to the webpage with the material from the PhD candidates). An overview of the groups will be published a few days before the seminar.

Reference list

Mandatory:


Optional:

  • Gundersen, J. et. al. (2021). Map ethics! A Method for identifying and addressing ethical dimensions of artistic research projects. Undoing Supervision. A Compendium of Key Issues in Supervising Artistic Reseach Doctorates (p. 18-21). Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21937/undoing.supervision

    (This article was on the reading list for seminar 3 and will be used as a reference in some of the workshops/discussions in seminar 4. We recommend that you read through it before the seminar.

  •  Danny Butt and Local Time, ‘Colonial hospitality: rethinking curatorial and artistic responsibility‘, Journal for Artistic Research, 10 (2016) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/228399/264279/0/0

Hughes, R., 2004. Exposition. In Schwab, M. & Hughes, R. (ed.), The Exposition of Artistic Research. Publishing Art in Academia (p. 52-64).  Leiden University Press (PDF)

Coccia, E., 2018. The Cosmic Garden. In Andermann, J., Blackmore, L. & Morell, D. C. (ed.), Natura. Enviromental aestetics after landscape. Think Art (PDF)

Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “R-Words: Refusing Research” In Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities, edited by Django Paris and Maisha T. Winn, 223–48. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2013 (PDF)

Suggestions from Merete Røstad (list of titles).

Program

 

Day 1

Location: The University of Bergen´s Læringsarena, Nygårdsgaten 5, Bergen. 

 

11:00    

Welcome, presentations and aims for the seminar, moderated by Jostein Gundersen and Janne-Camilla Lyster (seminar leaders)
11:30 Relationship(s): Jostein Gundersen (see pre-recorded lecture) , Alexander Eriksson Furunes, and Danny Butt (see abstracts below)
12:30 Relationsship(s): Plenary discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Experiential reflection session I* (Janne-Camilla Lyster)
15:15 Break
15:30 Managing complex artistic research projects (Merete Røstad)
16:15 Experiential reflection session II* (Janne-Camilla Lyster)
17:30 End

 

 * Experiential reflection are sessions that will support your individual exploration of the seminar’s theme through a low-key exercises, alternating between moving and writing. Please bring something to write on and with.

 

 

Day 2

Location: Bymuseet i Bergen: The School museum, Lille Øvregaten 38 (group 1, 2, 3) and The University of Bergen´s Læringsarena, Nygårdsgaten 5 (group 4, 5, 6)

 

09:30   

Sharing and discussing fellows projects in groups (1)

10:30

 Break

11:00

 Sharing and discussing fellows projects in groups (2)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Sharing and discussing fellows projects in groups (3)
14:00 Break
14:30 Sharing and discussing fellows projects in groups (4)
15:30

End of seminar. Bus from Olav Kyrres gate, platform E: Line 6 (Lyngbø) to Laksevåg (bus stop) and The unfinished institution, Damsgårdsveien 229, Laksevåg.

16:00

Social event and shared meal at The unfinished institution (not mandatory, but recommended). The unfinished institution (DUI) is a studio-collective and non-commercial production and project space for professional artists, established in the summer of 2022. DUI occupy approx. 800 m2, spread over two large halls, and they also have a number of adjoined rooms that are used as private studios. Currently they house 10 permanent members and 3 studios that are used for shorter stays. The studio community has developed shared resources like a library, a kitchen and a large communal workspace.

17:00

Short presentation/guided tour by Sveinung Rudjord Unneland at the The unfinished institution. Talk by Sabine Popp; she will present her PhD-project Agential Matter (Invisible Landscapes) and her most recent projects Longva kunstnerresidens / Metodar for Nordøyane.

  

Day 3

Location: Bymuseet i Bergen: The School museum, Lille Øvregaten 38 (group 1, 2, 3) and The University of Bergen´s Læringsarena, Nygårdsgaten 5 (group 4, 5, 6)


Please Note! We have a optional program.

Option 1:

09:30  

Sharing and discussing fellows projects (5)

10:30

 Break

11:00

Sharing and discussing fellows projects (6)

12:00

Lunch break
13:00 Sharing and discussing fellows projects (7)
14:00 Break
14:15 Plenary session 
15:00 End

 

 Option 2: 

09:00  

Sharing and discussing fellows projects (5)

10:00

 Mini-seminar: UiB AI #11: AI, Ethics, Aesthetics | UiB AI | UiB (the program starts 10:15). Please sign up by using the link.

11:30

End of seminar

11:30

Lunch break (lunch will be served at Bymuseet i Bergen: The School museum, Lille Øvregaten 38 for group 1, 2, 3).
13:00 Sharing and discussing fellows projects (6)
14:00 Break
14:15 Plenary session 
15:00 End


Abstracts

Relational Opacity
Danny Butt, University of Melbourne, butt@unimelb.edu.au

According to Gayatri Chakravoty Spivak (1995: 70), ‘The ethical is not a problem of knowledge but a problem of relation’ or, as she later revises, ethics are ‘a problem of relation before they are a task of knowledge’ (Spivak, 2004: 531). In doctoral research, we are charged with articulating our mastery of the scene of knowledge, but many research situations place us in relations where the task of knowledge is not epistemically available to us. How do we conduct ourselves the between modernist legacies that shape our genre of work, and emergent or re-emergent subjugated knowledges held in communities? Donna Haraway (1997, 38) suggests that “knowledge-making technologies, including crafting subject positions and ways of inhabiting such positions, must be made relentlessly visible and open to critical intervention.” But who intervenes? I will share some notes on the opacity of relations across epistemic difference, with reference to the project Local Time: Muri 10th July 2015 1400 (-1000)  produced in Rarotonga at the Oceanic Performance Biennial 2015. (Ref. Landry, D. Spivak, G. and MacLean, G. (ed.) 1995. The Spivak Reader. Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak. Routledge).

 

MUTUAL SUPPORT: Learning from Bayanihan/Dugnad 

Alexander Furunes, PhD, 2022.