Encounters in Artistic Research

Anke Coumans will discuss how love is an integral element in the artistic practices of PhD candidates Linde Ex and Luuk Schröder. 

• Artistic Research as a Catalyst of Knowledge. A View from the Elsa-NN Research Project, by Judith van der Elst. The goal of the ELSA-NN project is to investigate the ethical, legal and societal aspects of the implementation of Artificial intelligence in health. Within this project we create a unique opportunity to introduce artistic research and address how it can contribute to the overall research objectives.
• Artistic Research in Urgent Times, by Jan van Boeckel. Nigerian thinker Bayo Akomolafe has the following paradoxical advice: “The times are urgent, let’s slow down.” This talk will explore this suggestion in the context of doing artistic research in an age of ‘global weirding’ and biodiversity collapse.  

• Exhibition by FMI students

Curator: Agustin Martinez Caram
Students: Moojan Payami, Anna Musikhina, and Shari Mona Cinzia
Final presentation of works developed in the course AI. Providing a direct view into how an artistic research attitude can inform, inspire, and help develop an artistic output. The works deal with new technologies that strongly influence multiple layers of society and the artistic practice itself.

• Presentation of Artistic Research

Noor Nuyten, Barbara Rink, Luuk Schröder, and Margriet van Weenen.
Much like an everyday gym, artistic research connects domains through diverse methods. The artist-as-researcher seeks to engage with and relate to these domains that overlap, run parallel, or exist in entirely different spaces. You are invited to enter the gym and explore social, historical, material, and ecological domains of research. Join us by using “gymnastic attributes” such as archive materials, body prostheses, public objects, and indexes to see what kinds of art-research-sports can be played.

• Workshop 1: Art & Care by Ingrid Schuffelers, Anke Coumans
• Workshop 2: Generate 5 titles for a workshop on AI in Art Education by Rosa Wevers, Luuk Schröder
• Workshop 3: Arts, Philosophy, and Community, a Creative Trinity? By Nathalie Beekman
• Workshop 4: Embodied Research by Linde Ex
• Workshop 5: The Auto Ethnographic Turn by Bibi Straatman and FMI students
• Workshop 6: Materiality and Embodiment in Studying Making by Vanessa Bakhuizen-van ‘t Hoogt, Imka Buurke

Tale Næss is a playwright, author and dramaturge based in Oslo and Tromsø. She has a PhD in artistic research in playwriting from the Theatre Department at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO). Her focus as a researcher has been on the connection between the collective and the individual in texts written for the stage. Næss wrote The Kiribati Notes, the piece that will be performed following the lecture. She will discuss the process of writing the Kiribati Notes.

The day's programme will end with the performance of The Kiribati Notes at the Prins Claus Conservatoire (PCC). This drama piece explores authorship and climate change issues, which will be presented by an artistic collective consisting of alumni and students from Nordic Black Xpress, Minerva Art Academy, and PCC.

• The Last Makers // Engaging with Technologies by Catelijne van Middelkoop & Adri Schokker 
• Expanded Semantic Levels in Fashion // Unlearning Photography: Listening to Cyanobacteria by Harm Heye Coordes & Risk Hazekamp 
• Sonic Treasures of the Sun // Streams of Resistance by Icaro Lopes de Mesa Moyano & Victor Artiga Rodriguez 
• Re-Sensing Electronic Waste Through Artistic Practice // Ethics and Compositional Responsibility Behind the Use of Colonial Phonograph Recordings by Luuk Schröder & Christian Rosales Fonseca 
• Artmaking, Working, and Working Through (online) by Lyrene Kühn-Botma 
• Approaching Subtle Otherness // Wibbly-Wobbly Symbol, Touchy-Feely Space by Linde Ex & Dawoon Park 

Epilogue with closing remarks by Tale Næss, followed by drinks.