Artistic Practices
The research area Artistic Practices
The research area Artistic Practices is based on artistic implementation and creativity and the knowledge it generates and develops. Research in this area is steeped in interpretative processes, critical meetings and transdisciplinary dialogue. Methods are developed within the area that are integrated in artistic practice and lead to new relationships with material, technology, collaborations and audiences. At the same time the artistic practices’ boundary lines are being tested, as are the contexts within which they are articulated and performed and their ideological and departmental frameworks. These different methods and approaches stimulate new perspectives in terms of the aesthetic, the social and the political.
Artistic practice constitutes the basis for research that aims to create new knowledge within the area. At the same time the research provides critical reflection on the knowledge forming processes and problematises the area’s own way of contributing knowledge. Research in the area encourages methodological diversity that strengthens artistic practice and understanding. The methods are developed in accordance with the projects’ lines of enquiry and may be experimental, improvised or unpredictable, thus leading to unexpected insights. This is how the methods used in the research can build bridges to other areas of knowledge and give new, interesting frameworks for transdisciplinary problems. The results of the research are to be considered as situated proposals rather than empirically verified proof, and are expressed as specific artistic solutions, ideas and insights. At the same time, the results contribute to the arts, to artistic research and to other fields of knowledge with methodological insights and opportunities, new tools that can support or extend artistic expression and insights that can contribute to an understanding of transdisciplinary or societal issues.
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Photo: Johan Palme. Towards Atmospheric Care: from situating air to cultivating collective engagement, Hanna Husberg and Agata Marzecova, Research Week 2023.
