HIAS cordially invites you to the Netias Debates Session “What do we mean by Artistic Research if we really mean it?”
Six fellows working on Arts & Sciences/ Artistic Research projects and coming from five different Institutes for Advanced Study all over Europe share the thoughts and insights of their three-day common reflexion at HIAS:
–Wulan Dirgantoro (HIAS Hamburg)
–Clemens Krauss (ZiF Bielefeld)
–Massimo Leone (HIAS Hamburg)
–Alex South (IASH Edinburgh)
–Rania Stephan (IMERA Marseille)
–Jason Waite (HCAS Helsinki)
The exchange revolves around some key questions like: Can arts and sciences be seen as two separate epistemologic domains? Does art oppose science/scholarship? What is the relationship between them: is it linear, circular, superimposed…? What kind of questions are asked by art, by sciences? What drives the curiosity that is at the origin of the desire to research in both spheres?
“[…] Artistic Research has the unique capacity to operate within ambiguity, to render nuances that resist the grammar of academic prose, and to give form to paradoxes that scholarship often struggles to name. Some twists of human reality—subtle tensions of identity, affect, embodiment—cannot be said, only shown; not explained, but staged, enacted, or refracted. It is here that art becomes a form of thinking, not after or beside science, but with it—at times, even ahead of it. […]
(Massimo Leone: Glimpses, Glitches, Glyphs. Hamburg 2025)
The event takes places on Thursday, 5 June at 5 pm.
If you would like to participate online, please send an e-mail to: event@hias-hamburg.de
Netias Debates is a joint format of the member institutes of the European Network of Institutes for Advanced Study (NETIAS).