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When the artist's own life becomes the primary source material, performance art borrows from autoethnography — and raises new questions about evidence, exposure and ethics.
What separates artistic research from traditional scientific inquiry? An exploration of method, knowledge production and the contested space where art and academia meet.
Where does scientific inquiry end and artistic research begin? An examination of the contested boundary and what it means for knowledge production.
Contemporary artists increasingly mine historical and colonial archives for installation work. What ethical obligations come with repurposing material that was never meant to be art?
A painting or a performance cannot be peer reviewed like a data set. Here is the actual infrastructure — journals, catalogues and mixed panels — that the field has built to evaluate it anyway.
How the practice-based PhD evolved from a marginal experiment into a mainstream route for artistic research in European higher education.
From informal apprenticeships to fully accredited doctorates, the practice-based PhD has transformed how European art schools train their most advanced researchers.
Citation counts and impact factors fall short in the fine arts. How are institutions learning to evaluate the real-world and scholarly impact of creative work?
