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GUIDING QUESTIONS

 

The residency may support inquiry into questions such as:

 

– What distinguishes artistic research from artistic production, scholarly research, or reflective practice?

– Under which conditions can artistic practice operate as a method of inquiry?

– How do research questions emerge through making, performing, listening, or experimentation?

– What forms of knowledge can be generated through artistic practice?

– How can embodied, tacit, sensory, affective, procedural, or relational knowledge be articulated?

– What constitutes evidence within an artistic research project?

– How are observation, interpretation, speculation, and artistic proposition distinguished?

– How do methods shape what can become perceptible or knowable?

– When can intuition, improvisation, chance, failure, or surprise function as rigorous research operations?

– How should a project respond when its methods generate consequences that contradict its initial assumptions?

– What relation should exist among artistic work, research process, documentation, and exposition?

– How does documentation alter what it attempts to preserve?

– What forms of traceability are appropriate when artistic events cannot be reproduced?

– How do institutions, technologies, disciplines, and funding structures condition artistic research?

– How does the researcher’s position affect access, interpretation, authority, and representation?

– How are knowledge and authorship distributed within collaborative practice?

– What ethical responsibilities arise when artistic research involves other individuals, communities, environments, or archives?

– How can uncertainty be acknowledged without abandoning precision?

– How can research communicate beyond its immediate disciplinary context?

– What is gained and lost when a performance, installation, or sonic process becomes a lecture or article?

– How can writing remain accountable to the specificity of artistic practice?

– What does public presentation contribute to the inquiry?

– When does a research project reach a meaningful stage of completion?

– Which questions should remain open?

 

These questions are neither exhaustive nor mandatory. They indicate the artistic, epistemological, methodological, historical, ethical, and public dimensions of inquiry that the residency is designed to sustain.