WG1METHODS
ABOUT METHODS
The methods working group considers the different ways in which method discourses and practical operations interact to co-produce situated enquiries. The basic premise of our work is that there are genealogies of method discourse other than the Cartesian (and Diltheyan), and that method talk can have utility without producing claims for universality nor proposing familiar dichotomies of subject/object – theory/practice – means/ends – reason/unreason etc.
MEMBERS
- Maibritt Borgen (Royal Academy Copenhagen)
- Vytautas Michelkevicius (Vilnius Academy of Arts)
- Henk Slager (HKU Utrecht & UniArts Helsinki)
- Maria Topolčanská (The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague)
- Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University)
- Prof. Mick Wilson (HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg & Latvian Academy of Arts) (Contact for WG1)
UPCOMING
In the period Spring 2025 to Summer 2027, the main focus of the working group will be to generate a Handbook on Artistic Research Methods designed for use in doctoral education across artistic and humanistic studies with a particular focus on different modalities of practice as inquiry, mediating between debates on practice-led, practice-based, research creation, artistic research and so forth. As an interdisciplinary group of educators and researchers, our goal is to build a volume that provides tools, concepts and perspectives from across the arts in an easy to use resource that both describes specific methods and contextualizes their use by providing concrete examples.
PREVIOUS
2025 “Cases on Art and the Political Imaginary” EARN Methods Working Group-led seminar in University of Utrecht, as part of the “Transmission in Motion” seminar (2024-2025): “Implicatedness”
2023 Workshop for doctoral educators on PhD and method questions (25/10/2023).
2022 Panel presentations at EARN gathering: Making Artistic Research Public Presentations by: Maddie Leach, Annette Krauss & Christina della Giustina, Elina Saloranta (28/10/2022)
2021-2022 Reading group doing a close reading of Denise Ferreira da Silva’s (2007) Toward A Global Idea of Race. The reading group met typically on evenings of the second Monday of each month, and comprised researchers from several different PhD programmes including Gothenburg, Stockholm, Dublin, Lille, and Antwerp. See reading group page here.