Art and Artistic Research

Art and Artistic Research
Zurich Yearbook of the Arts, vol. 6

“Artistic research” is a new practice in the arts in which artists act as researchers and present their findings in the form of artwork. This practice is firmly established at European universities but has so far provoked little public response. What distinguishes artistic research from “mere” art, and what contribution can it make to the art world? Specialists in five disciplines (music, fine arts, design, literature, performance) from the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, and Switzerland respond.

Editors
• Corina Caduff, Prof. Dr., Literature and Cultural Studies Scholar, Zurich University of the Arts
• Fiona Siegenthaler, Art Historian, Zurich University of the Arts and University of Basel
• Tan Wälchli, Stipendiary of the Swiss National Science Foundation and visiting researcher at the University of Chicago
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Content
Hans-Peter Schwarz . . . . . . . editorial
Corina Caduff, Tan Wälchli . . . . . . . introduction
Art and/as Research
Nina Malterud . . . . . . . can you make art without research?
Germán Toro-Pérez . . . . . . . on the difference between artistic research and artistic practice
Johan Öberg . . . . . . . difference or différance?
Marcel Cobussen . . . . . . . the intruder
Michael Schwab . . . . . . . first, the second
Disciplines
Henk Borgdorff . . . . . . . artistic research as boundary work
Huib Schippers, Liam Flenady . . . . . . . beauty or brains?
Claudia Mareis . . . . . . . design research
Corina Caduff . . . . . . . literature and artistic research
Mats Rosengren . . . . . . . art + research ≠ artistic research
Artists’ Views
Efva Lilja . . . . . . . throw the stones really hard at your target or rest in peace
Sibylle Omlin . . . . . . . guile of innocence
Claire MacDonald . . . . . . . in her acoustic footsteps
Christoph Schenker . . . . . . . value judgments
Places, Projects, Universities
Hans-Peter Schwarz . . . . . . . from undisciplined to transdisciplinary (Zurich)
Kirsten Langkilde, Stefan Winter . . . . . . . new morphologies (Berlin)
Julie Harboe . . . . . . . art-driven research (Lucerne)
Arne Scheuermann, Yeboaa Ofosu . . . . . . . on the situation of artistic research (Bern)
Meret Wandeler, Ulrich Görlich . . . . . . . the archive of the place

Eds. Corina Caduff, Fiona Siegenthaler, Tan Wälchli
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and
Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2010
16 x 21,6 cm, 464 pages
ill. 10 color, 82 b/w
English/German
IS BN 978-3-85881-293-3
CHF 49.90/EUR 35.00