Since 2011, SARN has been an active network for artists and other researchers working within Swiss art schools. The network supports an authentic discussion about how and why artists do research, their working conditions and how this work is made accessible to the public. In a series of workshops beginning in 2011, projects (often on-going) have been presented, discussed and thus ‘used’ by all participants to gain an understanding of this emerging field. Developing an open discussion based on volunteer contributions across institutional borders has been exceptionally rewarding. The SARN booklets each consolidate reflections from one of the SARN-workshops, aiming to capture the seriousness as well as the dynamic lightness of the work. The booklets present artistic research issues in a comprehensible manner, to an audience interested in accessing and continuing the discussions.

Beginning in 2020 a new review series by the SARN work group NewsLibrary presents a loose survey of publication formats in the field. Each month, a different artist/researcher is invited to review a publication of their choosing from the standpoint of artistic research–in 1000 characters. In addition to here, the reviews are made available to the public in the SARN newsletter and on instagram @sarn_switzerland.

Microreview: The Poetic Power of Social Labour

Mahroo Movahedi reviews ﻿﻿Liza Lou, Breathing Lesson, Acrylic on rigid mounting canvas, nails, beaded cloths. 2023.

Microreview: I don't like the rules, I like this game.

Francisco González Castro reviews Alys Longley: Smudge Skittle: A little inventory of resources entangling creative practice research and writing. University of Auckland, 2018.

Microreview: Public Secrets – Knowledge under Censorship

Simone Etter reviews ﻿Zoran Naskovski – Public Secrets, retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrad, Serbia (19.10.23 – 26.02.24)

Microreview: The Big Overview – An Analogue Hinge for Digital Content

Siri Peyer reviews Inventory and Hinge. Entangled Fields of Research in the Arts. Institute for Contemporary Art Research 2001–2022, Christoph Schenker (Ed.), Diaphanes 2022.

Microreview: Of celluloid, plants, and archival monsters – Leandro Listorti's HERBARIA

Andrea Bordoli reviews Leandro Listorti, Herbaria, Argentina/Germany, 2022, 83 min, Spanish/German

Microreview: Dream Portal, Time Machine

Yin Yin Wong reviews Jay Tan, 'Under the Table' and 'Cave', mixed media installation, Dolf Henkes Prize exhibition, TENT Rotterdam, 05.06.2021 – 22.08.2021

Microreview: To Make the Road by Walking

Daniel Frota de Abreu reviews Vijai Maia Patchineelam, The artist job description, for the employment of the artist as an artist, inside the art institution, published by Track Report (Antwerp), in collaboration with OAZA (Zagreb) and a.pass (Brussels), 2022.

Microreview: The Paralyzing Present of Collapse

Lamia Abukhadra reviews Walid Sadek, Paintings 2020 – 2022, Beirut, September 2022.

Microreview: Love as an aesthetic-collective practice

Fatma Kargin reviews ﻿Love? Eine Werkstatt, 02.12. – 10.04.2023. Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Ethnological Museum of Cologne.

Microreview: Memory and Stasis in Abkhazia

Asida Butba reviews ﻿Sam Jury & Anton Ochirov, This You Must Remember, mixed media exhibition, DEPO Istanbul, 8 November 2022–9 January 2023.﻿

Microreview: Staging Archives and Revealing Legacies

Julie Marmet reviews Camille Kaiser, Photographs by the sea, 1962 (Swiss Art Awards 2022, Basel) and Off-camera (Kunsthalle St.-Gallen 27.08-06.11.2022).

Microreview: Segopotso sa Gomora: A Form(less) Archive

Nyakallo Maleke reviews ﻿Refiloe Namise, Segopotso sa Gomora, mixed media installation and performance, The Point of Order & Johannesburg, 31 March–17 April 2022.

Microreview: Rigorous witnesses – rereading Herta Müller’s The Hunger Angel through the lens of poetic transcription

Regina Dürig reviews Herta Müller, ﻿The Hunger Angel (﻿orig.: Atemschaukel), Berlin: ﻿Hanser, 2009.

Microreview: Artiste? Et sinon tu fais quoi?

Nihan Somay reviews Artiste? Et sinon tu fais quoi? (2016-ongoing), a project initiated by Louise Mestrallet and Cristián Valenzuela.

Microreview: The Waves

Sabine Popp reviews Espen Sommer Eide feat. Martin Taxt and Mari Kvien Brunvoll, The Waves, Christinegaard Hovedgaard, Bergen, Norway, Borealis festival for experimental music, 16.3.-20.3.2022.

Microreview: Pilots Forever?

Rachel Mader reviews ﻿Creator Doctus (CrD): ﻿EQ Arts. A framework of good practices for 3rd cycle doctoral awards in the creative and performing arts sector, and The Creator Doctus Constellation. Exploring a new model for a doctorate in the arts , 2021.

Microreview: Call for Artistic Research Lobbying

Siri Peyer reviews ﻿Creator Doctus (CrD) – a position paper, ﻿December 2021.

SARN Annual Report 2021

SARN annual Report 2021

Microreview: Inconsistency of Appearance

Nicole Ottiger reviews Christian Gonzenbach, La plonge (The Plunge), 2021, exhibition at Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne, 11.12.2021 to 6.02.2022

Microreview: Dream Room (moving beyond the flat frontality of online meetings)

Nienke Terpsma reviews ﻿Katie Ward and Paula Walta (﻿choreographers-dancers): Dream Room, 4 performances of approximately 1 hour, ﻿Centre d'artistes AXENÉO﻿7 in Gatineau/Québec, and simultaneously in Arnhem and online, October 2021.

Microreview: Camille´s Encounter with another Camille (or why we need a care revolution) copy

Valeria Schwarz reviews ﻿﻿Donna J. Haraway's “The Camille Stories. Children of Compost”, 2016 and Valeria Schwarz' Encounter with Another Camille, 2020.

Microreview: Historical materials unfit for museumization

Mohamed Abdelkarim reviews Noor Abuarafeh, 'The Earth Doesn’t Tell its Secrets' — His father once said, paperback: 255 pages, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2017

Microreview: Language as a space for performance activation

Noor Abuarafeh reviews Mohamed Abdelkarim, Let the Sea Eat ME: To Perform a Ferry, Esmat—Publishing List and MACACO PRESS, 2021.

Microreview: The streets are ours!

Leslie Fernández Barrera reviews multiple collaborations from the video essay The streets are ours. October 2019 - October 2020.

Microreview: Cordones Des-industriales (a fragment)

Eduardo Cruces reviews an open collection of words written by more than sixty researchers and collectives from various disciplines, mostly from Latin America or Spanish speakers (open to other languages), who share the grammar that makes up their research as an act of solidarity, July 2021-ongoing.

Microreview: Dialectic Diatribes on the New European Bauhaus

(Statler & Waldorf for) Anke Gruendel and Jamie Allen review the New European Bauhaus project in 3 parts

Microreview: Continuous search for understanding

Ásthildur Jonsdóttir reviews Halla Birgisdóttir: Did I notice it then, or did I notice it afterwards?, 2013-present

Microreview: Beating the Bounds

Robert Hamelijnck reviews Grayson Perry: Beating the Bounds, in Playing to the Gallery, Reith Lecture, Liverpool, 2013.

SARN Annual Report 2020

SARN annual Report 2020

Microreview: PlanteSorcières – External and internal uses of knowledge copy

Petra Köhle reviews ﻿Caterina Giansiracusa and Andrea Herrera. PlanteSorcières, a multidisciplinary project that started in 2018 (ongoing) at various locations and resulting in diverse publication forms.

Microreview: Openings

Mabe Bethônico reviews ﻿﻿L’Origine, artist book by Angela Marzullo, with text by Sarah Zürcher. Geneva, Published by Éditions Centre de la photographie Genève and Les Éditions Ripopée, 2019.

Microreview: Exploring biographies and geographies of breath/lessness

Kadiatou Diallo reviews Stacy Hardy, Laila Soliman, Nancy Mounir, Neo Muyanga’s documentary performance Museum of Lungs, 2018/2019

Microreview: Books as Spaces for Encounters

Anne-Laure Franchette reviews quotation mark quotation mark #3 Becky Beasley in conversation with Claire Scanlon, NERO Editions, 2019

Microreview: Implementing Bricolage

Denise Ziegler Reviews Tikkaoja, Oona. Everyday Anomaly Archive, 2010-2020

Microreview: To Dismantle

Tine Melzer reviews Frauchiger, Marco. How to dismantle a bomb, 2020.

Microreview: Seeing Anew

Gabriella Disler reviews Tuerlinckx, Joëlle. Lexicon & WOR(L)(D)(K) in PROGRESS ? (2012)

Microreview: Staging Polyphony

Erin Mallon reviews Robinson, Anne. Through the air with the greatest of ease: Phonogenie (Seismograf audio paper, 2016)

Microreview: Being Precise

Markus Schwander reviews Schuck, Nicole. Valued Animals - From Wildlife Topographies to the Ecosystem Services of Marine and Alpine Fauna, (Hatje Cantz 2010 – 2020)

Phd-Making Is My Art Practice copy

Notes and insights on the art PhD-experience in Switzerland

All We Need is (Art) Research?

Status and Perspectives on Artistic Reserach at Swiss Universities of the Arts

Mahroo Movahedi reviews Liza Lou, Breathing Lesson, Acrylic on rigid mounting canvas, nails, beaded cloths. 2023.

Simone Etter reviews Zoran Naskovski – Public Secrets, retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrad, Serbia (19.10.23 – 26.02.24)

Fatma Kargin reviews Love? Eine Werkstatt, 02.12. – 10.04.2023. Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Ethnological Museum of Cologne.

Asida Butba reviews Sam Jury & Anton Ochirov, This You Must Remember, mixed media exhibition, DEPO Istanbul, 8 November 2022–9 January 2023.

Nyakallo Maleke reviews Refiloe Namise, Segopotso sa Gomora, mixed media installation and performance, The Point of Order & Johannesburg, 31 March–17 April 2022.

Regina Dürig reviews Herta Müller, The Hunger Angel (orig.: Atemschaukel), Berlin: Hanser, 2009.

Rachel Mader reviews Creator Doctus (CrD): EQ Arts. A framework of good practices for 3rd cycle doctoral awards in the creative and performing arts sector, and The Creator Doctus Constellation. Exploring a new model for a doctorate in the arts , 2021.

Siri Peyer reviews Creator Doctus (CrD) – a position paper, December 2021.

Nienke Terpsma reviews Katie Ward and Paula Walta (choreographers-dancers): Dream Room, 4 performances of approximately 1 hour, Centre d'artistes AXENÉO7 in Gatineau/Québec, and simultaneously in Arnhem and online, October 2021.

Valeria Schwarz reviews Donna J. Haraway's “The Camille Stories. Children of Compost”, 2016 and Valeria Schwarz' Encounter with Another Camille, 2020.

Petra Köhle reviews Caterina Giansiracusa and Andrea Herrera. PlanteSorcières, a multidisciplinary project that started in 2018 (ongoing) at various locations and resulting in diverse publication forms.

Mabe Bethônico reviews L’Origine, artist book by Angela Marzullo, with text by Sarah Zürcher. Geneva, Published by Éditions Centre de la photographie Genève and Les Éditions Ripopée, 2019.