Manifesto of Artistic Research

Since its beginnings in the 1990s, artistic research has become established as a new format in the areas of educational and institutional policy, aesthetics, and art theory. It has now diffused into almost all artistic fields, from installation to experimental formats to contemporary music, literature, dance or performance art. But from its beginningsunder labels like art and science or scienceart or artscience that mention both disciplines in one breathit has been in competition with academic research, without its own concept of research having been adequately clarified. This manifesto attempts to resolve the problem and to defend the term and the radical potentials of a researching art against those who toy all too carefully with university formats, wishing to ally them with scientific principles. Its aim is to emphasize the autonomy and particular intellectuality of artistic research, without seeking to justify its legitimacy or adopt alien standards.

Autorentext
Nicolaj van der Meulen Prof. Dr., leitet zusammen mit Jörg Wiesel das Institut Ästhetische Praxis und Theorie an der Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, Basel. Er studierte Kunstgeschichte und Philosophie an den Universitäten Marburg, Berlin und Basel. Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Emergente Praktiken in Kunst und Design, Fragen der Bildwissenschaft, der Ästhetischen Urteilskraft, Kochen und Essen als Paradigma geschmacklichen Urteilens, Kunstgeschichte des 18. und 20. Jahrhunderts sowie Fragen der Vermittlung und Didaktik im Bereich von Kunst und Design. Betreuung künstlerischer PhD's.

Klappentext

Since its beginnings in the 1990s, "artistic research" has become established as a new format in the areas of educational and institutional policy, aesthetics, and art theory. It has now diffused into almost all artistic fields, from installation to experimental formats to contemporary music, literature, dance or performance art. But from its beginnings-under labels like "art and science" or "scienceart" or "artscience" that mention both disciplines in one breath-it has been in competition with academic research, without its own concept of research having been adequately clarified. This manifesto attempts to resolve the problem and to defend the term and the radical potentials of a researching art against those who toy all too carefully with university formats, wishing to ally them with scientific principles. Its aim is to emphasize the autonomy and particular intellectuality of artistic research, without seeking to justify its legitimacy or adopt alien standards.

Inhalt
5 - 6 False Competition 11 - 13 Three Problems 17 - 19 Four Misunderstandings 23 - 27 Theory And Practice 31 - 35 Aesthetic Knowledge 39 - 42 Practices of Aesthetic Thinking 47 - 54 Aesthetic Doing 59 - 62 For an Intellectuality of the Aesthetic