SARN Annual Report 2021

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Date
2022 March
Subtitle
SARN annual Report 2021
Type
Report
Author / Publisher
SARN
Author

SARN

Editors

Erin Mallon, Markus Schwander

Contributors

Donatella Bernardi, Rachel Mader, Markus Schwander

Published

March 31, 2022

Language

English

The question of what kind of knowledge artistic research entails has been of central importance since the emergence of the field. Like every new form of knowledge, it must distinguish itself from existing disciplines and, accordingly, determine its own characteristics and defining qualities. But artistic research faces additional challenges in several respects: neither ‘art’ nor ‘research’ are defined by clear-cut objects. The specialisations of these fields of expertise are characterised, seemingly paradoxically, precisely by their unboundedness, which the art scholar James Elkins describes vividly with the phrase “the sky is the limit” (...)