A series of workshops running alongside the ‘Research RCA: New Knowledge’ exhibition.
Wednesday 27 October 2010:
Art Research - A contradiction?
Jack Tan & Eszter Steierhoffer
6pm
Research Seminar Room, Stevens Building
‘Art practice’ implies an inquiry that develops knowledge based on intuition, improvisation, non-knowing and accident. It seeks to bring into presence or to call forth something beyond physical form or conceptual content. On the other hand, research as we understand it traditionally, aims to develop methodology that explains, posits, proves or represents some evidentiary knowledge about the world.
Why do we therefore try to bring together, in ‘art research’, the apparently contradictory practices of ‘presentation’ (art) and ‘representation’ (research). Is it at all possible for there to be a research method for art, when it is the project of art to confound method? However, in spite of this, can art practice provide traditional research methods a new methodology of the arts?
