16 posts
A plain-language answer to what artistic research is: knowledge made through practice, with enough reflection that peers can examine and continue the inquiry.
The room where artistic research happens is never neutral. Light, sound, scale and layout quietly shape which questions get asked and how the answers are recorded.
Treat seasonal travel windows as research materials — light, access, community calendars and abort criteria for Arctic art-based fieldwork.
Thinking about an artistic PhD? Here is how programmes differ, what a strong application contains, and what examiners look for once your art research is underway.
A practical guide to documenting creative work: studio notes, file systems, images, recordings, references, access and reflection.
How bird calendars and field seasons help artists plan honest Nordic fieldwork windows, ethics and method — without turning research into tourism.
Participatory and socially engaged art research involves real people, not just materials. A practical look at what informed consent should cover before fieldwork starts.
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?
Before an artist can respond to a landscape, someone has to get them onto it. On the unglamorous logistics behind Nordic fieldwork-based practice.
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?
