Artistic Research: Charting a Field in Expansion

Review Assis and D’Errico, in their first edited volume of a new series on artistic research, boldly announce the impossibility of defining the concept. Indeed, the book and its authors defy closure, and the essays present a stimulating, wide-ranging and insightful overview of the field, on themes spanning areas as diverse as music, bioart, art theory, and architecture. -- Helena Marinho, Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro, PortugalWhen does artistic research happen? Framing the question ‘What is artistic research?’ in these more embodied terms provides one of the guiding pointers for this collection of fifteen essays offering a methodologically and geographically diverse selection of answers. The editors have assembled an impressive array of authors, each with their own relationship to the discipline. -- Darla M. Crispin, Director of the Arne Nordheim Centre for Artistic Research, Norwegian Academy of MusicThis work provides a comprehensive overview of how artistic research has established itself as an integral part of today´s art world and higher education in the arts. It consists of informed accounts of the contemporary modes of research conducted in particular art fields, and case studies highlighting the ways that research takes place in practice. Together, they show how, in the 21st century, the flag of avant-garde has moved to the hands of the artist-researchers. Their experimentations carry further the institutional critique in the arts and expand the realm of artistic practices towards formerly unreachable dimensions of reality. -- Esa Kirkkopelto, Professor of Artistic Research, Malmö Theatre Academy, Sweden Product Description Artistic Research: Charting a Field in Expansion provides a multidisciplinary overview of different discourses and practices, exploring cutting-edge questions from the burgeoning field of artistic research. Intended as a primer on artistic research, it presents diverse perspectives, strategies, methodologies, and concrete examples of research projects situated at the crossroads of art and academia, exposing international work of significant projects from Europe, Asia, Australia, South and North America. The book includes chapters on diverse fields of thought and practice, addressing a common thread of questions and problematics. The comprehensive editors’ introduction offers a much-needed extensive overview of practice-based artistic research in general. This book is ideal for graduate students across philosophy, cultural studies, art, music, performance studies and more. About the Author Paulo de Assis is an experimental performer, pianist, musicologist, and music philosopher. Professor and researcher in Artistic Research at the Orpheus Institute Ghent, he is an expert in music performance, contemporary music, experimental performance practices, transdisciplinary discourses, and artistic research.Lucia D’Errico is a musician, multimedia performer, and graphic designer. She is an artistic researcher at the Orpheus Institute Ghent (BE), part of the research cluster MusicExperiment21. She performs on guitar and other plucked-stringed instruments, with a particular focus on Western notated art music of the 20th and 21st centuries and on experimental performance practices.