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Tag Archives: Holert

Artistic Research: Anatomy of an Ascent

By tom holert | Published: September 14, 2011
by Tom Holert, Published in Texte Zur Kunst - Issue Nr. 82 / June 2011 "Artistic Research"
Posted in Research as a Mode of Operation, unthreaded | Also tagged ambivalence, archive stagings, archives, artistic research, deistituzionalizzazione, drawings and diagrams, epistemic politics, multilingual, Re-Search and Destroy, the form of theory | Comments closed

Audio: Michelle Kuo: Research and Development. Experiments in Art and Technology

By tom holert | Published: June 9, 2011
Michelle Kuo (New York): Research and Development. Experiments in Art and Technology, 1966ff. Lecture Audio: Lecture (on invitation by Tom Holert), June 22, 2010, 7 p.m. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Room M20 Schillerplatz 3 A-1010 Vienna “Art” and “research” have, throughout modernity, been divided—one aesthetic, the other technological; one autonomous, the other applied.  But in *** read more ***
Posted in Research as a Mode of Operation, unthreaded | Also tagged artistic research, audio, collaboration, epistemic politics, the form of theory, troubling | Comments closed

Audio: Adrian Rifkin – Imperfecting Practice, Implicating Theory

By tom holert | Published: May 31, 2011
Part 1: Part 2 : 13.04.2011, 7 p.m. DG14/Turm 4 (top floor, then go up the staircase by room 214) Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna Lecture held in English, presented and hosted by “Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts”, a research project funded by WWTF Art(s) & Sciences and based *** read more ***
Posted in Research as a Mode of Operation, unthreaded | Also tagged Adrian Rifkin, ambivalence, appropriation, archives, artistic research, by law, collaboration, collage, deistituzionalizzazione, epistemic politics, The Crying Commodity, the form of theory | Comments closed

Audio: Simon Sheikh: A Conceptual History of Exhibition-making

By tom holert | Published: May 21, 2011
Simon Sheikh (Berlin/Malmö): A Conceptual History of Exhibition-making Lecture Audio: Lecture (on invitation by Tom Holert), May 6, 2010, 7 p.m. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Room M13 Schillerplatz 3 Since 1989, we have not only seen (geo)political and cultural changes in Europe, former west and east alike, but also a renewed interest in the *** read more ***
Posted in Research as a Mode of Operation, unthreaded | Also tagged archives, artistic research, audio, deistituzionalizzazione, epistemic politics, sheikh, the form of theory, troubling | Comments closed

Armin Medosch | Automation, Cybernation and the Art of New Tendencies (1961-1973): Art as Visual Research

By tom holert | Published: April 9, 2011
Wednesday, 11.05.2011, 7 p.m. DG14/Turm 4 (top floor, then go up the staircase by room 214) Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna Armin Medosch’s lecture, organised by the WWTF Art(s) and Sciences research project “Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts”, will be based on his PhD thesis-in-progress “Automation, Cybernation and the  *** read more ***
Posted in Research as a Mode of Operation, unthreaded | Also tagged Armin Medosch, artistic research, collaboration, mnemosyne, multilingual, Re-Search and Destroy | Comments closed

What is it that makes research in the arts so different, so appealing?

By Johanna Schaffer | Published: February 25, 2011
Johanna Schaffer’s thematic thread investigates the research habits and practices of the project workers involved in Troubling Research. Based on a series of interviews to be edited for publication, it focuses on the collaborators’ ideas concerning their own research practices. It will use the practices and practitioners involved in Troubling Research as exemplary for a *** read more ***
Posted in What is it..., unthreaded | Also tagged artistic research, collaboration, Dertnig, Diederichsen, epistemic politics, Gangart, Porsch, Schaffer, Seibold, Stockburger, the form of theory, troubling | Comments closed

artistic research quotes

By tom holert | Published: February 25, 2011
Allan Kaprow “Allan Kaprow has been preaching since 1964 that pure research should be propelled in art and art education like it is in any other academic field, and avant guarde-think-tank should be mobilized to vitalize the often too cautious academic community. […] Kaprow’s far-sight to modulate the avant guarde invention into the ‘outer space’ *** read more ***
Posted in Research as a Mode of Operation, unthreaded | Also tagged appropriation, archives, artistic research, collaboration, deistituzionalizzazione, epistemic politics, mnemosyne, Psychedelia und Readymade, Re-Search and Destroy, the form of theory, The Inner Light, troubling | Comments closed

Research as a Mode of Operation: Knowledge Production and (Self)Empowerment in an Art Historical Perspective

By tom holert | Published: February 25, 2011
The current discourse about research in the arts suspiciously lacks almost any historical perspective, as if the contemporary situation were unprecedented. Arguably, this apparent lack provides the proponents of the research-driven art university with the authority of an academic (and quintessentially Western) research ethics and imbues them with the status of inventors of a ‘new’ *** read more ***
Posted in Research as a Mode of Operation, unthreaded | Also tagged artistic research, collaboration, collage, deistituzionalizzazione, drawings and diagrams, epistemic politics, mnemosyne, Re-Search and Destroy, research/ teaching/ performative art, the form of theory, troubling, while drawing | Comments closed

Interview Ausschnitt: Tom Holert

By Johanna Schaffer | Published: February 20, 2011
JS: Mein eigenes Verhältnis zum Begriff ‘künstlerische Forschung’ ist aufgrund der Art, wie dieser Begriff gegenwärtig institutionell beschäftigt wird, eher ambivalent. Gleichzeitig interessiert mich, wie das, was sich als Bezeichnung für einen sehr grundlegenden Bestandteil künstlerischer oder gestalterischer oder auch produktiver Arbeit verstehen läßt,  zunehmend verengt und auch instrumentalisiert wird in einem Zusammenhang, dem es *** read more ***
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