Intuitive Artistic Research

image by Materialities; Energies

April 14, 2023, 13.30-15:30,
Materialities. Energies Postgrad Seminar
Royal Academy of Arts and Design Stockholm

Not only since the increase of doctoral programs at art colleges, has there been speculation about supposedly correct strategies and methods in art-based and design-related research (cf. Tröndle, Warmers, 2012). In this humorous and intentionally distant-to-science workshop, we take the freedom to leave out current trends in research and artistic production. Instead, the participants are invited to engage with their own state of not-knowing and transform it into a self-aware stance. We do not ask ourselves what to do. We practice trust in our own intuition. How do we as individuals and as a group actually want to evolve in the future? This workshop is for all people who want to humorously employ more meaning, purpose, and foremost pleasure into their individual and joint academic and artistic lives.

This course is a freestanding continuation of previous Materialities courses and aimed at professional visual artists and others who through artistic practices wish to investigate and unravel materiality qua (alt “as a form of”) energy and medium in an experimental and interdisciplinary manner. Springing from the artistic practices of each student, the course aims to employ materiality, technology and theory in creating the conditions for developing novel artistic methods. Students will be tutored through a series of labs in which the processing of a material or medium promotes the conception of new workflows, and which provide the practical experience and theoretical tools to explore in depth the transmission, transformation and perception of materiality and immateriality, of visibility and invisibility. 

https://kkh.se/en/education/further-education-in-architecture-and-fine-art/