Inspiring Failures, Productive Gaps, Enhanced Dissemination Formats
For the 10th SAR conference on Artistic Research, the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) is back in Switzerland where the society was founded 10 years ago. The SAR conference has become the place where the international artistic research community of all disciplines meets and eats, discusses and disputes, builds networks and friendships.
What is at stake?
- 2 guiding principles: Artistic Research Practices, Discussion
- 3 topics: Productive Gaps, Enhanced Dissemination Formats, Inspiring Failures
- 3 keynotes: By Kristen Kreider + James O’Leary, Rebecca Hilton, Cathy van Eck
- 60 contributions: by contributors from all over the world
- 2 formats of contributions: 20 minutes and 90 minutes
- 1 Website:(https://sar2019.zhdk.ch)
Three keynote speakers will highlight the three topics by public lectures:
Kristen Kreider and James O’Leary will open the conference with their talk „The beautiful mess we’re in“, discussing the role of failure, mistake, and error in the process of art research. Based on their collaborative practice, combining visual, spatial and poetic practices, they instigate architectural interventions on sites of cultural interest, such as prisions, military sites, film locations, protest sites and desert environments.
Rebecca Hilton askes if a ‚productive gap‘ is productive only as long as it remains a gap. „I see less, I hear less, I feel more“ will question trans-discipinary research based on the experience of one concret project Hilton was involved, where she was working on doing choreagraphic practice in the context of an Elder Care Home in Stockholm.
Cathy van Eck will elaborate on the topic of Enhanced Dissemination Formats in „Micorphones, loudspeakers and gestures: fostering the dialogue“ by showing the possibilites that open up between a book and a webiste publication of her ongoing research investigating microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments.
With about 60 contributions of individual researchers and research groups, 3rd cycle candidates, postdocs, senior researchers and professors alike, the conference is one of the most important international meetings for sharing research experiences and expertises within a peer reviewed environment. To take part in the conference sessions, all attendees must register; places are limited.
The two formats for contribution allow the participants to get a broad overview, deep insights and deepening discussions alike.
The guiding principles put artistic research practices and the discussion (and not the presentations per se) in the foreground.
The 10th SAR conference is organized by the Society for Artistic Research and the Zurich University of the Arts.
To participate to the conference, one has to register and pay the registration fee. For reasons of logistics the number of participants is limited.
Public events: all keynotes are open to the public (free entry). Only the sessions are reserved for registered participants.
Thursday, 21.3.2019, 17.30–18.30, concert hall, 7th floor
Kristen Kreider + James O’Leary
„The beatiful mess we’re in“
Friday, 22.3.2019, 10–11, concert hall, 7th floor
Rebecca Hilton
„I see less, I hear less, I feel more“
Saturday, 23.3.2019, 10–11, concert hall, 7th floor
Cathy van Eck
„Microphones, loudspeakers and gestures: fostering the dialogue“
The conference lounge with a research library is open during the two and a half days. 7th floor, 7.K10
The conference language is english.
More information and detailed programme can be found on the conference
website