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.
The group’s main focus currently (2026/7) is to generate the Handbook of Artistic Research Methods: Resonating Practices, 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.
MEMBERS
- Henk Slager (HKU Utrecht & UniArts Helsinki)
- Irina Gheorghe (The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague)
- Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht University)
- Maria Topolčanská (The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague)
- Mick Wilson (HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg & Latvian Academy of Arts) (Contact for WG1)
- Vytautas Michelkevicius (Vilnius Academy of Arts)
UPCOMING
22/04/2026 Online editorial workshop on The Handbook of Artistic Research Methods, a new publishing project that seeks to provide concrete examples of artistic research methods in a way that enables their iuse in multiple contexts and reserachjer settings. Participants include the editorial team Henk Slager; Irina Gheorghe; Iris van der Tuin; Maria Topolčanská; Mick Wilson and Vytautas Michelkevicius.
PREVIOUS
“How to Write Postdoctoral Applications: Online Workshop” (17 /02/2026) 10:00-12:00 CET
“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”
Workshop for doctoral educators on PhD and method questions (25/10/2023).
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.