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<div><font face="Verdana"><b>The Postresearch Condition</b></font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana">Welcome to the 2021 EARN/NWO Smart Culture
Conference - January 26 - 30, organized in collaboration with HKU
University of the Arts Utrecht, NWO (Dutch Research Council), and BAK,
basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.</font></div>
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>https://www.hku.nl/en/study-at-hku/hku-college/pre-phd-programme/the<span
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<div><font face="Verdana">After an omnipresent "Research Decade,"
the concept of artistic research currently seems to be in need of a
recharge. Pressing questions are: Should we talk about a postresearch
situation or a postresearch condition? Could this be compared with how
poststructuralism relates to structuralism as its philosophical
comprehension and the elaboration of its consequences? And how could a
postresearch condition address contemporary art practices?<br>
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<div><font face="Verdana">To answer these questions, it is important
to start from the three conceptual spaces that fundamentally determine
what we mean by research:<i> creative practice</i> (experimentality,
art making, potential of the sensible);<i> artistic thinking</i>
(open-ended, speculative, associative, non-linear, haunting, thinking
differently); and<i> curatorial strategies</i> (topical modes of
political imagination, transformational spaces for encounters,
reflection and dissemination) - and to comprehend these spaces in
their mutual, dynamic coherence as a series of indirect triangular
relationships.<br>
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<div><font face="Verdana">From whatever conceptual space one departs,
an artistic research practice could signify a transversal
constellation - as a creative proposition for thought in action.
Yet, that mode of research could never be reduced to a method of one
of the three constituents. Thus, artistic research cannot be equated
with creative innovation, disciplinary knowledge production, or
political activism. It seems urgent now - and this is the starting
point of this conference - to profoundly challenge and question the
issue of how to articulate and present the condition of the
intersection between the three conceptual spaces. For this purpose, an
intensive program of workshops, presentations, propositions,
screenings, and publications has been developed.</font></div>
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