The articulation of the value of artistic research is one of ELIA’s priorities. ELIA had a fundamental role in the implementation of the Bologna process in higher arts education institutions.
More recently, ELIA set up several working groups, including one revolving around artistic research. If this topic is of interest to you, and you are on staff at an ELIA member institution, join the Artistic Research Platform.
At the moment, ELIA and the Artistic Research working group is involved in the strategic partnership Erasmus+ project Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates, developed in a transnational cooperation setting and coordinated by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
In the frame of this project, ELIA organised the Challenges of Doctoral Supervision at the end of September 2019.
ELIA is also partner in the CA2RE+ project (ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership), which includes a series of biannual international and intercultural intensive study programmes for doctoral candidates, guided by experienced evaluators from participating universities and invited experts.
On behalf of ELIA, the working group developed The Florence Principles, a position paper on artistic doctorates, presented at the ELIA Biennial Conference 2016 in Florence.
The position paper was already successfully used to give recognition to artistic doctorates at a European and national level.
Since the 2018 Rotterdam Biennial, ELIA members continued to exchange regarding artistic research at two Artistic Research Platform Meetings. The first event was hosted by Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in June 2019 and the second was a digital event in September 2020. The working group had a leading role in preparing these events. It also worked on increasing the visibility of Artistic Research on a European level, by contributing to the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research (published in collaboration with AEC and other networks in June 2020) and by endorsing Paulo de Assis as ELIA’s nominee to the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission.
Furthermore, the working group have identified other priorities, which aim to continue the work undertaken during one of ELIA’s past projects, SHARE, and strengthen its network.
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21 September (14:00 – 18:30 CEST) & 22 September (14:00 – 17:30 CEST)
“Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be…”*
Mapping the disciplinary state(s) of Artistic Research
This year, ELIA’s Artistic Research Platform Meeting will be held online on 21 September (14:00 – 18:30 CEST) and 22 September (14:00 – 17:30 CEST). Take part in the interactive virtual sessions focused on the state of artistic research now within the frames of certain disciplinary discourses.
For many years and in many countries artistic research has oriented towards the sciences and humanities. The art-science exchange has dominated the idea of research, and artistic fields have tried to relate/adopt/adapt for better or worse, to academic traditions.
During this event we ask how different artistic disciplines and fields are dealing with the idea of research. What are the qualities, methods and formats currently used? We will look at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and ask where the difficulties lie.
In the last platform event (13 & 14 June in 2019) under the title, “Providing a Framework for Artistic Research”, participants took stock of what artistic research departments need in order to flourish within their institutions. One of the outcomes, was the realisation that different disciplines have differing needs, that are addressed in diverse ways all over Europe. As a result of these findings, the Artistic Research Platform would like to focus this year on the state of each disciplinary setting of artistic research, specifically and separately – and then experiment with a mapping of sorts. Artistic research, for the most part, is considered an inter- and transdisciplinary affair, so looking at separate disciplinary settings/conditions within AR may seem like an artificial exercise. However, this could become more important with the growing sovereignty of AR: how can we describe the current AR landscape, within certain disciplinary frames and discourses?
AR has developed at different speeds, in different dimensions and changed direction as a result of various factors e.g. different financial frameworks, grant opportunities, institutional frameworks (e.g. PhD-programme or not) producing varying qualifications and ways in which they relate to careers. Also, countries have very different histories of artistic research. The AR Platform wants to acknowledge these differences as a point of departure, and try to look at how disciplines have been writing their own narratives about their investment (or lack thereof) in artistic research within Europe. What we can share, steal, and most of all learn from each other? This platform topic is timely, as the ELIA Biennial 2020 will look at how transdisciplinary settings shape our world.
Who is the intended audience for this event?
All professionals working in the artistic research field or related fields, and PhD candidates, from ELIA member institutions
Participants can expect an interactive session, involving breakout discussions and a plenary conversation toward a multi-layered mapping of the international artistic research landscape.
**Come as you are (Nirvana, 1992)
Come as you are, as you were
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend
As an known enemy
Take your time, hurry up
The choice is yours, don't be late
Take a rest as a friend
As an old
Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria
Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach
As I want you to be
As a trend, as a friend
As an old
Memoria, memoria
Memoria, memoria
And I swear that I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun
No I don't have a gun…
The 'Florence Principles' position paper was presented by Andrea Braidt (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), chair of the working group, during the 14th ELIA Biennial Conference in Florence. It is intended as a position paper on the doctorate in the arts.
It is formulated as a point of reference for policymakers, university leaders, curriculum designers and research funding agencies. It is addressed to universities of art and science alike, helping the former to secure recognition for their endeavors (with national funding bodies, legislature, etc.) and helping the latter to learn about the research developments within the art university sector.
Providing a Framework for Artistic Research
13 - 14 June 2019
Hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
The Artistic Research Platform is a virtual and, occasionally, a physical forum for institutional, programme and project leaders; heads of departments; researchers; PhD students and supervisors of ELIA member institutions who are professionally involved in and want to contribute to, the development of artistic research.
You can join the VIRTUAL PLATFORM to receive specific updates on the topic of artistic research by registering below. Registration to the platform is free, however, it is restricted to professionals affiliated with ELIA member institutions.
The first Artistic Research Platform Meeting, which took place from 13-14 June 2019 in Vienna, dealt with the question of how higher arts education institutions can provide a substantial and sustainable framework for artistic research. Particularly, the discussion focused on what artistic research projects and artistic research doctoral programmes need in terms of:
Infrastructure and Spaces;
Critical Mass, Community and Feedback process;
Multidisciplinarity vs Discipline Specifics;
Dissemination, Open Access, Open Research Data;
Handling Stereotypes and Institutional Challenges;
Internal and External Funding schemes.
Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates
Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates produces intellectual outputs ready to use for those involved in doctoral supervision across all art disciplines. Innovative formats like an interactive mindmap, exhibitions and essays, a non-normative guide book, a web-based tool kit and a prototype for a training module deal with all dimensions of the triangular doctoral framework: institution – supervisor – PhD candidate.
At Stake
Defining supervision, supervision vs. other concepts like mentoring, coaching, etc.
Ethical dimensions in supervision
New competencies for supervisors
Professional education for supervisors (training)
The art of giving feedback in artistic research (transdisciplinarity)
The role of the research environment for supervision
The Orpheus Institute launched its first MOOC in January 2019: Artistic Research in Music – an Introduction. An updated version of the course launched on 16 September 2019 and will be available until 14 June 2020 as a self-paced MOOC.
Artistic Research in Music – an Introduction offers an introduction to the most relevant research tools, techniques and methodologies as well as the key concepts of artistic research in music. It is expected for a learner to spend 6 to 8 hours of effort per section. By the end of the course, through completing the assignments, learners will effectively have produced a complete research proposal.
As part of a strategic partnership with Erasmus+ Advancing Supervision for Artistic Research Doctorates, developed in a transnational cooperation setting and coordinated by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, ELIA is organising an event on the challenges of doctoral supervision.
The conference takes place in Stuttgart on 24-25 September 2019. This event produces intellectual outputs ready to use for those involved in doctoral supervision across all art disciplines.
More information about the event will be published in spring.
About
SHARE stands for Step-change for Higher Arts Research and Education and was an international networking project, comprising 39 partners working together on enhancing the ‘3rd cycle’ of arts research and education. It created a Europe-wide exchange framework for the widely different experiences, practices and ideas that make up the lively domain of artistic and cultural research.
SHARE worked across a wide spectrum of creative cultural practices including visual and performing arts, music, design and media.
ELIA and GradCAM Dublin jointly coordinated it and the European Commission selected the project for structural funding over the period of 2010-2013. SHARE was co-funded by the EU through the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency through the ERASMUS Lifelong Learning Programme.
SHARE consisted of three networks working independently:
A network of existing graduate schools developed innovative, cross-disciplinary approaches and programmes, building upon the current European Artistic Research Network.
A newly formed network for developing 3rd cycle education, provided information, support and a collaboration base for programmes in the start-up phase.
A network of researchers and supervisors, continued expanding the EUFRAD forum for research degrees in arts and design.
Further working groups were concerned with the validation, advocacy, and dissemination of artistic research; conferences took place in Copenhagen, London, Brussels and Aarhus.
All working groups and networks contributed to the final book publication in 2013, which you can read here.
For more information and resources visit the SHARE network website.
The SHARE Handbook for Artistic Research Education
The SHARE Handbook for Artistic Research Education is a poly-vocal document, designed as a contribution to the field of artistic research education from an organisational, procedural and practical standpoint. As a provisional disclosure of the state of the art within specific constituencies, this publication seeks to be serviceable to many different agendas and projects, and it attempts to do this by demonstrating the lived contradictions of what is simultaneously both an emerging and fully formed domain of research education.
Edited by Mick Wilson and Schelte van Ruiten the Handbook features contributions from:
Henk Borgdorff, Anna Daucaíková, Scott deLahunta, ELIA, James Elkins, Bojan Gorenec, Johan A Haarberg, Efva Lilja, Steven Henry Madoff, Leandro Madrazo, Nina Malterud, Ruth Mateus-Berr
Alen Ozbolt, John Rajchman, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Andris Teikmanis
Johan Verbeke
Copies can be ordered by contacting ELIA Office at info[at]elia-artschools.org. The price of the book is 25 euro + shipping.
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Programme
The meeting will be held online. Participants can expect interactive sessions, involving breakout discussions and a plenary conversation toward a multi-layered mapping of the international artistic research landscape.
Monday 21 September 2020
14:00 - 18:30 CEST
14:00 - 14:30
Welcome
14:30 - 16:00
Break-out discussions (SWOT analysis across disciplines)
16:00 - 16:20
Break
16:20 - 17:50
Break-out discussions (SWOT analysis across disciplines)
17:50 - 18:30
Wrap up
Tuesday 22 September 2020
14:00 - 17:30 CEST
14:00 - 15:00
Presentation of combined SWOT analyses
15:00 - 16:50
Break-out discussions (learning from others, next steps)
17:00 - 17:30
Final remarks & outcome
Registration is now open!
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 7 JUNE 2019
ELIA MEMBERS Registration Fee: 60 EUROS
The registration fee includes all seminar materials, access to all sessions, coffee breaks, one dinner and one lunch.
The Artistic Research Platform Meeting is an exclusive event for ELIA Members. Representatives of Non-Member institutions interested in joining may contact Barbara Revelli at barbara.revelli[at]elia-artschools.org.
Artistic Research Platform Meeting: Vienna 2019
Photographer: Gabriele Holitz
The first Artistic Research Platform Meeting takes place at the interim University building of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, at the following address:
Interim Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Augasse 2-6,
A-1090 – Vienna
Austria
ACCOMMODATION
Delegates are advised to book accommodation at the earliest convenience. ELIA has made pre-bookings for delegates at a discounted price. The deadline for booking these accommodation options is 6 May 2019. Any bookings after the deadline will depend on availability and on a first come, first served basis.
You may book directly with the hotels here below; for a special discount, please use the CODE: ELIA.
HOTEL BELLEVUE VIENNA
Althanstraße 5
1090 Vienna
Austria
Tel +43 1 31623606 www.bellevuehotel.at
Price incl. breakfast: 84 Euro
This hotel is at less than 10 minutes walking distance from the venue.
To book this hotel, email [email protected] with the discount code: ELIA.
Price incl. breakfast:
Single room: 90 Euro
Double room: 105 Euro
This hotel is at 6 minutes walking distance from the venue.
TRAVEL INFORMATION
The first Artistic Research Platform Meeting takes place at the interim University building of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, at the following address:
Interim Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Augasse 2-6,
A-1090 – Vienna
Austria
From the airport:
Take the City Airport Train to “Wien Mitte”, and from there the underground line U4 (green line) till Station “Spittelau”. Take the exit “Josef Holoubek Platz” and go towards the glass/mirror building to the far right. From this location, posted signs will indicate the way.
