The 6th European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Art
Call for Papers for streem
Art as Research
(Liepaja, 19/20 June)
Deadline for abstract submission is 1 December 2009
In the framework of The 6th European Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Art organized by Electronic Text + Textiles (e-t+t) Art Research Lab of Liepaja University is organizing a stream „Art as Research“.
Chair: Aija Druvaskalne-Urdze - the stream in Liepaja is organized by the Art Research Lab, Liepaja University(LV) in cooperation with Y (Institute for Transdisciplinarity) of the Berne University of the Arts (CH) and the td-net for Transdisciplinary Research of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.
Researching art, talking about art. Researching through art, talking through art. We call the first activity the science of art, while the second is currently evolving under the banner of 'artistic research' or 'art as research'. This slight reformulation via a prepositional shift is not a mere trifle. It is a way of affirming that the arts produce knowledge, and that they have the right to lay claim to being an alternative form of knowledge and research on a par with other sciences.
In our workshop "Art as Research" we want to collect general positions in dealing with artistic-research practice and focus especially on questions of methodology and the process of peer reviewing. We invite contributions that address the following issues:
General approaches:
• How to combine art and research? - On the theory of artistic research
• What does art know? - On the epistemological potential of the arts
• Why should we do artistic research? - On the explicit and implicit reasons for artistic research
Methodology:
• How to combine artistic and scientific knowledge production?
• Which are the methodologies for doing art as research?
• How can the arts contribute to the development of innovative inter- and transdisciplinary methods in research and teaching in general?
Peer reviewing:
• If artistic production wants to be research, how then to evaluate the presentation of nonverbal results?
• Examples of PhD-projects in the Arts.
• Examples of peer reviewing processes of artistic projects in national research funding programmes
• What's the added value of integrating the arts as research in larger inter- and transdisciplinary research projects and curricula?
Papers and discussions set up during streem „Art as Research“ will be published afterwords in separate publication „Art as Research“.
Deadlines and Submission Address
Submission of abstracts (300 words): 1 December 2009
Notification: 10th of January 2010
Paper submission: 31st of March 2010
• Key words (not more than 6).
• Main text, conclusions, references.
• All together about 3500 - 4000 words.
Pictures, diagrams etc. can be added.
All proposals should be sent to a single email address: santa.mazika@liepu.lv
Registrations: only for „Art as Research“ streem 50 €
Requisite:
Liepājas Universitāte
Lielā ielā-14, Liepāja
Izglītības iestādes reģ. Nr. 3042000219
Account: Nr.LV45TREL9150190000000
With reference: 21499 for conference “Art as Research”.
Please see website of the conference http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm and updates of the streem „Art as Research“ in Art Research Lab website for: http://mplab.lv
We look forward to your participation.