Foundations I: What is Artistic Research? And what could be wayward about it?

READING

DAY 1

Foundations I: What is Artistic Research? And what could be wayward about it?

Within an institutional context, be it the art academy or the museum, any attempt to analyse, classify and display, is inevitably attached to forms of power. In the texts of this reading session, both Claire Bishop and James Elkins, advocate in their own way, to alternatively embrace complexity, plurality and interrelations. The term constellation, as opposed to rational linearity, better represents the wayward approach they propose: a continuous conversation, across time and experiences. Similarly, the texts that follow, manage to divert further the authors’ ideas, bringing the reader into multiple and simultaneous directions.

Based on: James Elkins, “Why Art Cannot Be Taught”

Claire Bishop, “Radical Museology: What’s Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art?”