ARTISTIC RESEARCH NETWORK

UPCOMING EVENTS

23 and 24 February 2026

Two online conversations on recent curatorial publishing projects with Carolina Rito, Cătălin Gheorghe, Khashayar Naderehvandi and Mick Wilson.

15 April 2026

This online workshop explores Slager’s trajectory of artistic research publishing in anticipation of the release of his new monograph: Collateral Concepts: A Provisional Vocabulary for Artistic Research (2026).

22 April 2026

The Methods group will discuss the editorial approach to the Handbook of Artistic Research Methods: Resonating Practices in development for 2027.

9 May 2026

International Curatorial Students’ Assembly during the 2026 Venice Biennial, organized by the EARN Curatorial Studies Workshop. More information and schedule posted late February.

WORKING GROUPS

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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

Working Groups