Positioning and Questioning Artistic Research: Examining Contested Subjects, Opposition, and Legitimacy

1. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Contested subject and field Opposition : academia art world government Demarcation: art practice & artistic development academic (scientific) research Legitimacy: practice-based degrees (MA, PhD) funding

2. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Questioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008

3. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Education Other Research Fields Epistemology & Methodology Academic Research Science System Emerging Paradigm Higher Education Policy Art Practice

4. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Emerging Paradigm Artistic research Research-Creation Performative research Practice-based/ -led/ as research Research in and through art practice A conceptual and institutional framework Practices, vocabularies, theories Professional organisations Journals, books, editors, e-platforms Conferences Government agencies Funding Education Research institutes, ELIA, AEC, PhD-Design, PARIP

5. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Books: Gray, Carole, and Julian Malins. Visualizing Research. A guide to the research process in art and design . Aldershot: Ashgate 2004. Sullivan, Graeme. Art Practice as Research. Inquiry into the visual arts . Sage 2005 Hannula, Mika, Juha Suornta, Tere Vadn. Artistic Research , Helsinki/Gothenburg 2005. Macleod, Katy, and Lin Holdridge. Thinking through Art. Reflections on Art as Research . Routledge 2006. Barrett, Estelle and Barbara Bolt (ed.). Practice as Research. Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry . London, New York: I.B. Tauris 2007. Forthcoming: Biggs, Michael and Henrik Karlsson. Handbook on Art-based Research (2010?)

6. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Emerging Paradigm A conceptual and institutional framework Practices, vocabularies, theories Professional organisations Journals, books, editors Conferences Government agencies Funding Education Sensuous Knowledge 5 Bergen, Norway, 24-26 October 2008 Research into Practice 5 London, 31 October 2008 ELIA Biennial Gteborg, 29 October -2 November 2008 Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The Hague, 21 November 2008 Austrian Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) Vienna, 4 December 2008 Swedisch Research Council ( Vetenskapsrdet) Stockholm, 12-13 March 2009 Research Fellowship Programmes PhD research projects

7. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Education Other Research Fields Epistemology & Methodology Academic Research Science System Higher Education Policy Art Practice

8. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Higher Education Policy 2010: European Higher Education Area Quality assurance Recognition of qualifications Bachelor Master Doctorate Dublin Descriptors: research ! Higher education reforms Dictate and threat from outside art and art education? Chance and challenge for art and art education? Different solutions in UK, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, (cf. ELIA report) Artistic Research: A free space within higher education for material thinking

9. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Education Other Research Fields Epistemology & Methodology Academic Research Science System Art Practice

10. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Practice Research hype scepsis Art practice = Reflective practice from outside: need to contextualise from inside: reflexiveness of art itself A free space to think market creative industries strains of production Urgency Tension: art academia Effect on art Effect on academia

11. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Education Other Research Fields Epistemology & Methodology Academic Research Science System

12. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Science System Frascati Manuel : Fields of Science & Technology Fields of Research & Development Research into to intellectual en social organisation of the sciences: Mode 1 science Mode 2 knowledge production Quadrant model of research - quest for fundamental understanding - development of practice Artistic research: to broaden our understanding of the world and ourselves developing new artefacts: images, compositions, performances, - context of application - transdisciplinarity - extended peer review Basic research Applied research Experimental development

13. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Education Other Research Fields Epistemology & Methodology Academic Research

14. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Academic Research Research: Original investigation undertaken in order to gain knowledge and understanding Questions, problems, issues Context (art world, art discourse) Methods Outcome: presentation, documentation, d issemination What? Why? How? What form? Liberalised understanding of research: Dublin Descriptors: The word [research] is used in an inclusive way to accommodate the range of activities that support original and innovative work in the whole range of academic, professional and technological fields, including the humanities, and traditional, performing, and other creative arts . It is not used in any limited or restricted sense, or relating solely to a traditional 'scientific method.

15. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Academic Research Research: Original investigation undertaken in order to gain knowledge and understanding Artistic Research: Art practice is central ! question context method outcome

16. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Education Other Research Fields Epistemology & Methodology

17. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Epistemology & Methodology Knowledge & understanding , i nsight, comprehension experience Theoretical knowledge - Practical knowledge Propositional knowledge - Embodied knowledge Knowing that - Knowing how Explicit knowledge - Pre-reflexive knowledge Focal knowledge - Tacit knowledge Artistic research is an articulation of the non-conceptual forms of experience and knowledge in and through the creation of art.

18. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Epistemology & Methodology Humanities research Applied research Social science research Art Science collaborations There is no distinct, exclusive methodology for artistic research Methodological pluralism The practice of the arts (creating, designing, performing) is central to the research process, and works and practices of art are partly outcomes of the research Material Philosophy, Material Thinking

19. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Education Other Research Fields

20. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Other Research Fields Philosophical aesthetics Cultural studies / performance studies Post-war French philosophy Ethnography, anthropology Phenomenology, cognitive sciences Engineering & technology Philosophy Baumgarten Kant, Hegel, Adorno Theoretical object (Mieke Bal) (Theatre and gender studies) E.g. Deleuze & Guattari Field study, participant observation Bodily knowledge, embodied skills, expert understanding Building a bridge Reflection, Thinking not knowing

21. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Education

22. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Education Level of competence: bachelor, master, doctorate Research Training in the Creative and Performing Arts and Design UKCGE 2001 (www.ukcge.ac.uk) Research Environment Research Seminars Research Training Programme Content Admission Supervision Assessment

23. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Education Research environment A range of research programmes across the creative and performing arts Access to research resources (books, on-line text and images, artefacts, collections etc.) An active programme of professional practice (concerts, exhibitions, readings, performances and presentations) A range of opportunities for presentation, discussion and debate (lecture series, seminar series, colloquia, conferences etc.) Properly resourced working facilities (workstation, materials, IT provision, access to basic office and study requirements: e.g. photocopier, phone) Discussions with a range of significant others : practitioners in the field, peers, supervisors and individuals with expertise and experience at the interface between theory and practice Collaborative arrangements between departments or institutions

24. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Education Seminars to share problems to heighten awareness of models and opportunities at the interface between theory and practice in the particular field to heighten awareness of breadth and depth (levels) of study to develop necessary vocabularies for debate to conceptualise relations between theory and practice as a part of the problem-solving process to build confidence to provide examples of effective research practice (i.e. by discussing already successful [] projects with their authors) to engage with interdisciplinarity : (how the research interfaces with the wider field of academic enquiry)

25. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research Art Education Training Programme Content How to devise a research project Understanding the subject area as a field of systematic enquiry Contextualising the research in a form appropriate to the subject Introduction to a range of methods/methodologies in the context of their appropriateness for the particular research project and subject area Research skills and techniques matched to the subject Understanding the iterative process, or the process of continuous redefinition Models for comparative study particularly of existing, successful PaR projects Understanding the possible relationships and tension between practice, theory and criticism General and specialised presentation skills Systems and options for documenting practice Continued development of artistic and performance skills as appropriate to the subject Structuring a thesis to incorporate practice and its documentation

26. Henk Borgdorff, Amsterdam Positioning Artistic Research Reykjavik, 3 October 2008 Artistic Research