ARTISTIC RESEARCH NETWORK

UPCOMING EVENTS

Conference Eastern European Curatorial Practice Riga Latvia

25-26 September 2025

EARN Curatorial Studies will present and discuss issues raised by The Lexicon project at the conference Eastern European Curatorial Practices: Historical Development and Challenges, Riga.

22–24 October 2025

An artistic research symposium hosted by Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)and the new transdisciplinary research group BODIES.

4-20 December 2025

Idiorrhythmic Imaginaries research exhibition and discursive programmes takes place in UniARts Helsinki.The exhibition is part of the sixth Research Pavilion.

12 December 2025

The repository of EARN publications (2004 to 2025) will be made available online, including .pdfs of EARN-associated publications such as the (2013) SHARE Handbook and the (2015) Experimental Aesthetics.

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METHODS

This working group considers different aspects of the question of method and research design across different approaches to artistic inquiries, research creation, and practice-based/ practice-led research.

BODIES

BODIES is an international group of researchers, educators and practitioners coming together from across artistic, academic, and activist contexts. Unfolding via three discrete yet interrelated working parties – corporeal bodies, institutional bodies, and environmental bodies…

IMAGINARIES

This is a new working group, established in Autumn 2025, to consider the different constructions of “the imaginary” within artistic practice, artistic research and adjacent inquiries across social theory, philosophy, anthropology, and literary studies.

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POLITICS OF AESTHETICS

This group challenges meaning production and emphasizes aesthetic form. They explore political-aesthetic approaches, including refusal, opacity, and abjection.

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CURATORIAL STUDIES

Researchers, educators, and practitioners collaborate in this group to study curating and the curatorial. Shared events and outputs provide a collaborative international research environment.

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COMMUNICATION

Serving as the network’s communication hub, this group connects working groups and manages both internal and external communications.

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SPACE + PRACTICES

Beyond seminar rooms, this group investigates the impact of diverse spatial practices on artistic research. They explore various dimensions of space, physical and conceptual.

ON DRAWING

On Drawing is an open invitation to artistic researchers from different disciplines to share knowledge on the state of drawing today, to explore how drawing relates to the world around us and…

NETWORK ACTIVITIES

The network operates through a variety of means including regular international working-group meetings, workshops, seminars, symposia, conferences, winter/summer-school programmes, exhibitions, and publications. See upcoming activities.

UPCOMING EVENTS

WORKING GROUPS

NETWORK ACTIVITIES

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