Danny Butt, "How Artistic Research Ends" - ACCA 24th October 2017
Channel: Danny Butt
Date: 2017-11-03

Book launch for Artistic Research in the Future Academy by Danny Butt, launched by Professor Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Melbourne). Public talk "How Artistic Research Ends" with respondents: Professor Barbara Bolt (Victorian College of the Arts) and Professor Ashok Mathur (OCAD University). Welcome from Max Delany (ACCA).

http://www.artisticresearchbook.net
Published in 2017 by Intellect, ISBN 978-1-78320-790-9,
 
How Artistic Research Ends
 
“Artistic research” shadowed the growth of graduate study in studio arts in the late 20th century, including the integration of many art schools and polytechnics into a tightly integrated and networked higher education sector, and an accompanying interest in art’s relationship to traditional academic disciplines. As the art education sector grew, the key debates were concerned with what the future of artistic research should look like as it expands.
 
However, given the impact of neoliberal austerity measures and funding cuts that have resulted in programme closures and declining enrolments, we now consider the likelihood of artistic research contracting. What if artistic research is now approaching the end of its university life, a fate potentially shared by the critical elements of the humanities and social sciences? Based on the historical analysis from the book “Artistic Research in the Future Academy”, this presentation imagines the potential ways artistic research may end and what this may mean for its potential renewal.

Apologies for grainy video, but audio is from desk and is high quality.

Talk available: https://www.academia.edu/35040895/How_Artistic_Research_Ends
 
Danny Butt is a member of the art collective Local Time, and coordinates the Master of Arts and Community Practice at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
 
Professor Nikos Papastergiadis is the Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures, and Professor in the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne.
 
Professor Barbara Bolt is an artist and art theorist, and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of VCA and MCM, University of Melbourne.
 
Professor Ashok Mathur is a writer, cultural organizer, and interdisciplinary artist, and incoming Dean of Graduate Studies at OCAD University in Toronto.  
 
This event was supported by the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.