Artistic Research Will Eat Itself. Eating Oneself Requires Acrobatics

Abstract

After a decade of attempts to define artistic research without jeopardizing either the aesthetic, nor the epistemic value, this young discipline seems to find itself at a critical point. The pursuit of the not-yet known may be the smallest common denominator in research practices, and as such, also at core of artistic research. As for artistic practice, however, sensitivity, intuition and creativity are undoubtedly fundamental for any aesthetic production. In the following I want to approach the modus operandi of artistic research using an example of a movement in architecture and design of the first half of the 20th century.