TT Public Talk | Art as Research with Steve Dutton
The last weekend of every month the institute is in session, we will hold a topic-based weekend intensive with our PhD students and you are invited to attend a series of talks ranging from artist presentations, to talks driven by the workshop topics or practice research itself. For those of you interested in pursuing doctoral studies, the latter talks may be of special interest. See the full program here: TT Intensive Program and the list of talks here: TT Public Talks.
Please join us for our second talk in this public talk series:
SATURDAY, 28 NOV 2020
20:00 - 20:30 UTC
ART AS RESEARCH
A TALK + Q&A WITH Steve Dutton
Despite, or indeed as a welcome consequence of, the multiple critical conversations, disagreements and discourses surrounding the fluid and complex nature of artistic research, the sometimes necessarily contradictory and unpredictable nature of artistic practices often remain straightjacketed by what might be perceived as the institutional demands being placed upon the creative practice-based researcher. Wrestling with the seeming incompatibility of placing art alongside research can be both exhausting and an even an unhelpful distraction from the matter in hand. I will explore the potentials of art to help guide us through the landscape of research, and vice versa. What is the ‘matter in hand?’ Might there be ways we approach the work of art ( its task ) in terms of research as something completely other than an instrument of problem solving, and as a process of inhabiting a set of problems, contradictions or and unstable territories from within?