The concept of artistic research has undergone an intense flowering of interest within the art world in the last decade. Practically this has meant that in art education and grant systems a focus has emerged on the construction of programs and stipend foundations which confer positions and placements for artistic research and expansion.
Because of this intense theoretical focus in the art world, the development of artistic academic programs revolving around this confluence of art and research, and the concurrent focus of funding in this regard, the question of what is entailed in the concept of artistic research is one which has become highly topical for the current discussions within the art community and institutions.
This MA seminar will look at a number of thinkers on the issue of research and how this is informed by the notions of method, paradigm, practice, and text.
The seminar will be held in four meetings. Readings will be distributed to signed-up participants per emailed pdf’s.
Summary of Seminar:
Paradigms and the negotiation of methodologies of research
Seminar 1, Paradigms and normative art production and acceptance
Seminar 2, Methodology, archives, disciplines and the ideology of qualitative/quantitative research
Text, Image, truth and the question of an art research method
Seminar 3, Elaborations and Distributions of image and text in artistic activity
Seminar 4 The question of the object and Truth restraints in the image and art
Text to Be Read Per Seminar meeting:
Seminar 1, Thursday, September 30th 13:00-15:00, Meeting Room, 4th Floor, Academy building
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (selections)
Giorgio Agamben, “What is a Paradigm?”
Seminar 2, Thursday, October 21st 13:00 -15:00, Meeting Room, 4th Floor, Academy building
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (selections)
Kathrin Busch “Artistic Research and the Poetics of Knowledge”
Seminar 3, Thursday, November 18th 13:00-15:00, Meeting Room, 4th Floor, Academy building
Jacques Ranciere, The Politics of Aesthetics (Selections)
Jaques Ranciere, “The Future of the Image”
Stephen Wright: “Behind Police Lines: Art Visible and Invisible”
Seminar 4. Thursday, November 25th 13:00-15:00, Meeting Room, 4th Floor, Academy building
Alain Badiou, “Art and Philosophy”
Jacues Ranciere, “Alain Badiou’s Inaesthetics’s,: The Torsions of Modernism”
Mika Hannula, “River Low, Mountain High: Contextualizing Artistic Research”
Supplementary Texts (not necessary for seminar discussion, but relevant to issue):
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method
Jacques Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”
Jean-Luc Nancy, “Distinct Oscillation”
Mika Hannula, Artistic Research: Theories, Methods and Practices
Graeme Sullivan, Art Practice as Research: An Inquiry in the Visual Arts
Norman Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln, The Handbook of Qualitative Research
Guba, E.G. & Lincoln, Y.S., “Competing Paradigms in Qualitative Research”
Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity
Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
Ludwik Fleck, The Genesis and Development of Scientific Fact
Arbeidsform:
MA Reading Seminar:
The seminar will be held in four meetings. Readings will be distributed to signed-up participants per emailed pdf’s. All participants are required to have read the texts and be prepared to discuss.
Krav til forkunnskaper:
Kurset starter 30.09.2010 / Uke 39, og varer til 25.11.2010 / Uke 47
Sted: Meeting Room, 4th Floor, Academy Building
Tilbyder: MA kunst
Målgruppe: MA Kunst
Årstrinn: Master 1
Master 2
Antall plasser: 15
Faglig stab: