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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Screenshot 2024-05-08 at 10.50.02 (2024) Manuel Phil. Bischof
as a white ass, male human, Swiss/Austrian citizen, I refuse to reproduce the Western narrative of art history. I am a Fine Art student at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK), who had to write a personal art history in max. 1000 words. 08.05.2024 The Hague
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espaço inútil (2024) Clara Sefair
espaço inútil é um convite à ativação de experiências que rompam automatismos com relação ao espaço, à sensibilidade e, no limite, à própria vida. A aposta é instalar dispositivos alienígenas aos contextos onde são introduzidos, sejam eles espaços públicos ou institucionais. espaço inútil provoca fissuras nas sensibilidades automatizadas. Ao interagir e ativar as instalações, os próprios corpos que se propõe ao jogo, à experimentação e à pausa, improvisam novas coreografias do cotidiano, criando uma poética do inesperado. Temos vivido um contexto de adoecimento e de pobreza de experiências sensoriais, sensíveis e lúdicas. Se as forças que regem a contemporaneidade consomem a energia de cultivar a própria vitalidade, há ainda menos margem para o cultivo dos encontros. Três dispositivos criam espaço e tempo de inutilidade
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Illuminating the Non-Representable (2024) Hilde Kramer
Illustration as research from within the field is of relatively new practice. The illustrators discourse on representation (Yannicopoulou & Alaca 2018 ), theory (Doyle, Grove and Sherman 2018, Male 2019, Gannon and Fauchon 2021), and critical writing on illustration practice was hardly found before The Journal of Illustration was first issued in 2014, followed by artistic research through illustration (Black, 2014; Rysjedal, 2019; Spicer, 2019). This research project developed as response to a rise in hate crime towards refugees and the targeting of European Jews in recent decade. A pilot project (This Is a Human Being 2016-2019) treated how narratives of the Holocaust may avoid contributing to overwriting of history or cultural appropriation. Asking how illustration in an expanded approach may communicate profound human issues typically considered unrepresentable, this new project hopes to explore representation and the narratives of “us” and “the others” in the contemporary world through illustration as starting-point for cross-disciplinary projects. The participants from different disciplines, have interacted democratically on common humanist themes to explore the transformative role of illustration in contemporary communication. our projects should afford contemplation of illustration as an enhanced, decelerated way of looking; and drawing as a process for understanding - a way of engaging in understanding the other, as much as expressing one’s own needs (McCartney, 2016). This AR project consisted of three symposia and three work packages, and the artistic research unfolded in the symbiosis of these elements. Our investigation of illustration across media and materials continues as dissemination and exhibitions even after the conclusion of the work packages in 2024.
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Art and Conservation of more-than-human Entities in the Post-Conflict (2024) Marthin Rozo Castaño
PhD project: Art and Conservation in the Post-Conflict, Supervisor: Cristina Garcia Grinda + Efrén Diaz Moreno Envelope is a publication of the PhD in Art programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
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Be our Guest: Serving Ancestral Anecdotes on the rocks (2024) Corç George Demir
PhD project: Ancestral Junctures: On the Expansion of Ancestral Mythologies, Supervisor: Hans Schabus Envelope is a publication of the PhD in Art programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
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Dancing with Lions (2024) Andrew Champlin
PhD project: Technique Concerns: Ballet Practice Against the Western Archive, Supervisors: Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond Envelope is a publication of the PhD in Art programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
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