1. TALKIN’ LOUD AND SAYING SOMETHING?
Four Perspectives of Artistic Research
Organised by Johan Öberg, University of Gothenburg
Academy- and university-based research in and through the arts
is growing in importance and diversity. As a relatively young form of artistic and scholarly practice, it has the promise of opening up new perspectives for artistic work, knowledge production and critical discourse.
Artistic research is an activity in the making. It needs to develop its own unique discourse for analysis, evaluation and critique and its own forms of autonomy so as not to become a toothless hostage of either creative economics or academic conformism.
To remedy such dangers, platforms for discussion, critique and evaluation are essential. We would therefore like the ELIA symposium in Gothenburg to become such a platform.
At the exhibition Talkin’ Loud and Saying Something!, which will take place at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, we will not only have the opportunity to engage in four important research projects but we will also have time to talk about theory and principles.
We would really like to make this symposium into a forum for in-depth artistic research projects and open-minded, stimulating discussions, which will, in turn, encourage, promote and cultivate the formation of critical discourse and meta-discourse in our field.
