16th International Conference on Artistic Research, University of Porto by 16th International Conference on Artistic Research

Resonance: The past decade witnessed the appearance of new debating spaces in artistic research. At a time when art and culture, local and global policies, and events are haunted by societal challenges as vast as they are unpredictable, what can artistic researchers offer in response to these concerns? How can artistic research resonate beyond its specific contexts and disciplinary borders? Resonance is a prompt to address the transformative nature of artistic research as a connective element that evokes a response and qualifies our experiences as meaningful. However, it can also be understood as a critical tool characterizedcharacterised by reciprocity and mutual transformation. Resonance is a response to personal and societal challenges both poetically and through modes of political imagination and transformative meeting spaces. Getting into resonance is to create a relation between artistic research and the world that requires questioning and answering, but also the ability to change and be changed.

16^th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research

7, 8 and 9 May 2025

University of Porto, Portugal

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Main Venue: Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto
Asprela Campus: Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

Reception end of day 1 and SAR General Meeting: Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto
City Center Campus: Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas, 265, 4049-021 Porto, Portugal

7 MAY

09:30 > Registration opens

10:00 > Internal Meetings of SAR Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

11:30 > Public Presentations of SAR Special Interest Groups

13:00 > Lunch

14:30 > Opening Performance

14:45 > Welcome Remarks and opening of the 16th SAR Conference on Artistic Research

15:15 > Keynote session with Matthew Fuller

16:30 > Poster sessions

17:30 > End of day 1

19:00 > Welcoming event at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto

20:00 > Reception at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto

8 MAY

Parallel sessions

09:30 > Thematic sessions # 1

10:30 > Thematic sessions # 2

11:30 > Thematic sessions # 3

12:30 > Thematic sessions # 4

13:15 > Lunch

14:30 > Keynote session by Yinka Esi Graves

Parallel sessions

15:45 > Thematic sessions # 5

17:15 > Thematic sessions # 6

18:00 > End of day 2

20:00 > Special Conference Dinner

9 MAY

Parallel sessions

09:30 > Thematic sessions # 7

10:30 > Thematic sessions # 8

12:00 > Thematic sessions # 9

13:15 > Lunch

14:30 > Keynote session by Juliana Hodkinson

Parallel sessions

15:45 > Thematic sessions # 10

16:45 > Plenary session & RC Prize Announcement

18:00 > Farewell Drinks

10 May [(For SAR Institutional Representatives and Individual Members]

Venue: Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, Aula Magna

10:30 > SAR GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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