Art of Research
The Practice of Aesthetic Thinking
Elke Bippus (ed.)
Zurich/Berlin, diaphanes Verlag, 2009
Artistic research is one process in which “implicit” knowledge – the gaps, the unexplained – is able to bear fruit. This view is at odds with a time where Humboldt’s educational ideal is giving way to an attitude that knowledge is merely an economic factor, something that is supposed to be available as a new form of capital. Bruce Nauman has described art as an instrument that can be used for the activity of research. Seen in this light, the activity of research takes on a political component because it disrupts the usual asymmetry between the knowing researcher and user.
In the publication “Art of Research”, artists, researchers and philosophers focus on a form of research that blends aesthetic and epistemic practices to operate in a field spanning both the sensory and the conceptual. The contributors show clearly that artistic research helps prepare and disseminate an alternative way of thinking about responsibility, while at the same time casting doubt on the customary divisions between art and science, theory and practice.
The publication contains texts and images from contributors Martin Beck, Elke Bippus, Beatrice von Bismarck, Kathrin Busch, Gabriele Gramelsberger, Frank Hesse, Katharina Hinsberg, Jörg Huber, Christoph Keller, Dieter Mersch, Eva Meyer, Eran Schaerf, Peter Piller, Hannes Rickli, Christoph Schenker and Ute Vorkoeper.
Further information: 272 pages, 65 b/w images, brochure, 16.5 x 22.5 cm, available in bookstores: ISBN 978-3-03734-080-6, CHF 35.90 / EUR 19.90
Published as volume 4 of the Institute for Contemporary Arts Research series
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