Entangled Fields of Research in the Arts: Institute for Contemporary Art Research 2001-2022
Inventory and Hinge provides an overview of the research projects performed over the last two decades at the Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR) of Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). It is an inventory because it presents all the projects realized during this period with many figures and illustrations. It is a hinge because links and QR codes grant access to nearly all publications and websites that were created by the individual projects.
Artistic work interconnects multiple competencies and areas of knowledge, ways of life and working, and the IFCAR research projects are thus organized in correspondence with this transgressive gesture, which becomes manifest here as interdisciplinary, networked knowledge production. The cultivation of these complexities has been a mission of the IFCAR since its inception.
Throughout these pioneering years the IFCAR has always seen its task in the promotion of research competency in the fine arts, and in providing support for the conception and execution of concrete projects. Although art as research has a long tradition outside of institutions, this task meant nothing less than introducing a new research discipline into the context of knowledge and establishing a new genre in the context of art. Each of the projects presented in this book involves research through the process of creation—but they often also conduct a metadiscourse on artistic research itself.
ZHdK: Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR)
Inventory and Hinge | Christoph Schenker (ed.) [E-Book PDF]
Entangled Fields of Research in the Arts: Institute for Contemporary Art Research 2001-2022
Inventory and Hinge provides an overview of the research projects performed over the last two decades at the Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR) of Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). It is an inventory because it presents all the projects realized during this period with many figures and illustrations. It is a hinge because links and QR codes grant access to nearly all publications and websites that were created by the individual projects.
Kunst und Ethnografie – zwischen Kooperation und Ko-Produktion? | Ute Holfelder, Klaus Schönberger, Thomas Hengartner, Christoph Schenker (Hg.)
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Anziehung – Abstossung – Verwicklung: Epistemische und methodologische Perspektiven
Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge verweisen auf die Gemengelage zwischen künstlerischer und ethnografischer Forschung, zwischen der Praxis der Feldforschung und der Kunstbetriebe, zwischen Künstler*innen, Ethnograf*innen und hybriden Akteur*innen, die heute dies und morgen etwas anderes sind. Im Fokus stehen transdisziplinäre Perspektiven, die die gegenwärtigen entgrenzten gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse methodisch und epistemisch einzuholen versuchen.
Kunst des Forschens. Praxis eines ästhetischen Denkens | Elke Bippus (Hg.) [E-Book PDF]
Künstlerische Forschungen können zu den Verfahren gezählt werden, die auch ein «implizites Wissen», Brüche und Ungeklärtes fruchtbar machen. Solche Aspekte stehen in Widerspruch zu einer Zeit, in der das Bildungsideal Humboldts einer Ökonomisierung weichen und Wissen als neue Form des Kapitals verfügbar sein soll. Bruce Nauman hat Kunst als ein «Instrument» beschrieben, «mit dem man sich eine Aktivität des Erforschens aneignen kann». Forschen ist in diesem Sinne als Aktivität vorgestellt, welche die übliche Asymmetrie zwischen wissendem Forscher und Anwender unterbricht und damit eine politische Komponente gewinnt.
Deep Water | Jürgen Krusche, Siu King Chung (eds.)
Public Spaces in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong
In strongly globalized cities there are fast transformation processes on the move, reinforced by the neo-liberal policies and the resulting economic, social, urban and cultural policy strategies. From a research perspective, a main question is how to capture, describe and interpret such developments taking place at a fast pace.
Researchers and artsts from Hong Kong and Zurich worked together in a small area of Sham Shui Po, one of the poorest and still most traditional Districts of Hong Kong, to investigate its public spaces according to topics of urban transformation and gentrification.
