Registration open for End of Year Symposium What Art Knows & MERIAN, June 23
For You: generous artistic research
Tuesday June 23
Time: 10.30h – 18.00h
Location: Brusselseweg 150, BR.2.21/22 Maastricht
Register here!
| The research centre What Art Knows is a cookie tin. The research centre What Art Knows is not a cookie tin. In our end of the year symposium, researchers affiliated to the research centre What Art Knows and MERIAN are happy to share their work with you. You can expect artistic research into darkness, work on the history of waste materials, collaborative research into music students’ practices of practicing, exercises in cartopological mapmaking and much more. The researchers will present their work in forms that attend to those to whom their research outcomes really matter. They grapple with the questions: For whom or for what does my research aim to be generous? Who does my research require to be there? Someone once said: The research centre What Art Knows is a fantastic kind of cookie tin that others can pick from. It stuck with us. It seemed to encapsulate our success at doing what we were supposed to be doing: research that helped and improved arts education, relevant knowledge domains and professional practice. We began using the metaphor to talk about our work. Increasingly, the image became useful not only to render the ways in which we succeeded, but also the ways in which we tried and the ways in which we failed. Could teachers and students, professional practice, cultural institutions, academic and/or artistic researchers really find the tin (because we hadn’t held it out invitingly for them or because they weren’t really trying to find it)? Did they even like our cookies (and should they)? Does anyone really need cookies (and if we were cookie bakers, what did that imply about us)? Did others bake their own cookies just fine thank you very much? We started using the cookie tin metaphor to think about how to improve our efforts to do research for others, or to understand how the processes of sharing our research with them unfolded. Where ought we to put the tin? Could we share recipes with them (and what were those recipes)? What about their recipes or could we bake together? How could we find out or later evaluate their tastes, our tastes? And many more. The cookie tin started to hold all of the above. It became shorthand for the question of how really to do research for others. And it marked the start of our research into and on generosity. It also still held cookies. Cookies we make sure to serve in generous numbers along with tea and coffee whenever we would host meetings or share or workshop results. During our end-of-year symposium, we’ll open our cookie tin together. Register here! Program 10:30 – 11:00 Walk in: Coffee and Cookies 11:00 – 11:15 Welcome by lector Ties van de Werff 11:15 – 12:00 First session of presentations: – Diana Ramakers: Learning to see when light disappears, a guided practice of seeing in the dark – Céline Mathieu: Lived Logistics – Ulrike Scholtes: Tiny Porous Spaces 12:00 – 12:30 Rounds of feedback 12:30 – 13:30 lunch 13.30 – 14:15 Second session of presentations: – Martine de Rooij: Can your dreams be true Martine? A journey into artistic and personal space – Marlies Vermeulen and Sofie Hermans: Sharing practices of Non-linear documentation 14:15 – 14:45 Rounds of feedback 14:45 – 15:15 break 15.15 – 15:45 Third session of presentations: – Ruth Benschop: Oefenen Oefenen. Researching with Music Education – Sina Sinfee: Shadow and Wonder: A Bestiary Under Game-Development Pressure – Ewout D’hoore: CORNUCOPIA, COLLECTIVE EXERCISE 15:45 – 16:15 Rounds of feedback 16:15 – 16:30 break 16:30 – 17:00 Closing observations by discussants Joep Vossebeld and Denise Petzold. 17:00 – 18:00 drinks |