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13th SAR Conference 2022

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

24h online event

30th March - 1st April 2022

3 Days on-site event

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13th International Conference

on Artistic Research

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

 

24hrs online event

3 days of onsite events

30th of March - 1st of April

2022, 10am - 18pm, Weimar

ABOUT

 

The 13th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research will take place from March 30th to April 1st, 2022, for the first time in Germany at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The conference will consist of a 24-hour online event and three days of live, on-site events in Weimar. 

The SAR 2022 conference will present the state of the art in Artistic Research, as addressed in the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research: excellent research through means of high-level artistic practice and reflection; an epistemic inquiry, directed towards increasing knowledge, insight, understanding and skills. The declaration also states that artistic research fulfils the five criteria for research as defined in the OECD framework document for research, the Frascati Manual. With this document, the artistic research community has taken an important step towards a broader recognition of artistic research worldwide. 

The SAR 2022 conference program will give special attention to creating spaces of inclusivity and diversity. Submissions by persons of color, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ persons are especially encouraged.

 

SPEAKERS

FORMATS

The 13th International Conference on Artistic Research will savor the respective potentialities of digital and physical modes of co-presence, manifesting in two different modes:

 

ONLINE

A 24 hour “long conversation” online offering a variety of successive presentations throughout different time zones. For the “long conversation”, presenters are asked to moderate the discussion of the speaker immediately following their own, interweaving

 

ONSITE

A three-day gathering, providing the opportunity for focused sessions, exchange and workshops in physical presence. For the physical presence part of the conference, artistic researchers of all disciplines are invited to meet and collaborate in sessions and workshops within a spatially decentralized, socially-distanced and Covid-hygiene-approved program in Weimar.

 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

 

Please submit a 300-word abstract of your contribution via the Research Catalogue by 13:00 CET on October 1st, 2021. Contributions should relate to the three attractors, and specify one of the three possible formats:

Online: live presentations (can contain pre-recorded elements) of about 20 minutes followed by a 20-minute discussion moderated by the previous speaker

On Site in Weimar: presentations (30- or 60-minutes including discussion)

On Site in Weimar: workshops (80- or 180-minutes including breaks)

Important: To be able to submit you must register as full user on the Research Catalogue on September 20th 2021 at the latest!

 

SELECTION CRITERA

 

The conference will feature state of the art presentations from a wide range of visual, media, and performing arts, music, design, craft, and hybrid disciplines.

• Contributions should be recognizable as excellent examples of artistic research and should reflect the discipline in provocative ways that invite critical reflection.

• We are specifically looking at how the research project addresses the criteria outlined in the Frascati Manual (i.e. novel, creative, uncertain, systematic, transferable and/or reproducible)

• We are looking for the role of sustainability, future-thinking and diversity in the contributions. Submissions by BIPoC, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ persons are especially encouraged to apply.

ATTRACTORS

Artistic Research is in a unique position to confront uncertainty. The dire grievances brought on by Covid-19 and the climate crisis demand more than utopic gestures or hopeful technologies. Challenged by the tensions of our times, Artistic Researchers are tasked with applying diverse forms of embodied knowledge to craft new tools for post-crisis conviviality and radical kindness. We are seeking future-oriented responses to current social, cultural, ecological and economic challenges through the manifold means of high-level practice and reflection in the arts. The conference proposes three attractors to advance understanding of artistic research and stimulate new collaborative capacities and interdisciplinary scholarship.

 

Mend

Covid-19 has drastically deepened and at the same time exposed the racial, ethnic and gender inequalities of contemporary societies across the globe. What can artistic researchers learn from loss in order to design a different future? What practices of grieving and repair can help us move forward? We call for a place of dignity, where rupture, wear and tear are acknowledged as part of the historical fabric, where new practices of mending are shared.

Blend

Facing increasingly complex social, technological and environmental challenges, artistic research can offer decidedly open, hybrid and fluid means of dissolving disciplinary boundaries. How can artistic research foster diverse and forward-looking encounters, sensitive interaction, and reflective collaboration? What new practices of interdisciplinary blending result from knowledge transfer in troubled times?

Attend

Proposing a research culture of “attending to”, we are interested in citational practices that swerve the cannon and recalibrate the gravitational pull of historical hierarchies in knowledge production. Within artistic research, there has been a strong tendency to cite disciplines outside the arts, prioritizing other legacies. What would it take to recognize overlooked presence? What kind of attention can be brought to the fragile, complex influences of artists, places, events and things that escape or have been denied citation? We call for radical attention to citational practices in artistic research.