TRONDHEIM ACADEMY OF FINE ART
Head of Department Florian Schneider and Associate Professor Michelle Teran will present at the Artistic Research Will Eat Itself conference in Plymouth.
https://sarconference2018.org/
The provocation Artistic Research Will Eat Itself can be understood as a warning against the dangers of methodological introspection, or as a playful invitation to explore the possibilities of a field in a constant state of becoming. In this context, the ‘cannibalism’ of artistic research ‘eating itself’ embodies a dynamic tension between self-destruction and regeneration.
Critical perspectives on the discourse surrounding artistic research might be argued to already be too formulaic or self-defeating. Making a case for its own institutional legitimacy could unwittingly reinforce some of the very things artistic research aims to critique. Yet such onto-epistemological paradoxes can offer a rich territory for exploration along with generative practices that involve reflexivity, automorphogenesis, and recursive feedback loops. In recognising auto-cannibalism as an analogy for broader socio-political and environmental concerns, one of the challenges for artistic research is to respond imaginatively to the dynamic tensions between self-destruction and regeneration.
In his keynote lecture, Florian Schneider will suggest a series of working points for artistic researchers in new divisions of academic labor.
Michelle Teran, together with Frans Jacobi (KMD, Bergen) will lead "perception crisis machine conglomerate”, a workshop which explores the machinic methods of the ongoing artistic research SYNSMASKINEN. (http://www.synsmaskinen.net/)