Class Research Methodologies in Art: Visual Complexity

UC that introduces students to artistic research and to different possible approaches.

1. Development and improvement of artistic practice: action and reflection.

a) Development of personal vocabulary for doing and talking about art; b) Artistic research as an action in the space of a continuous practice, the “inside-in” chain of artistic research, its historical origin and artistically contextualized for public actions that return and inform the developing process; c) The absence of a starting question. Experimentation and attempt: “Fail, fail better and better”.

2. Context and production: articulation, form, discussion, maintenance and renewal; dynamic construction.

a) The need for action within a structure of artistic production and creation; b) Perception and perspective, creation of meaning; c) Narrativity and clarification of temporal experience; d) Exploration of the unknown and interpretation of the physical and human worlds.

3. Imagination, Intuition, Intensity.

4. Sources and processes of research and artistic practice.

Use and development of artistic research methodologies or “practice based research methodologies”

• Feyerabend, Paul; Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (1975)

   

  Suoranta, Juha & Vadén, Tere & Hannula, Mika. (2014). Artistic Research Methodology. Narrative, Power and the Public.

   

  Ricoeur, Paul (1995) – Teoria da Interpretação, trad., Porto, Porto Editora, col. Filosofia-Textos, (edição comentada).

   

  Niedderer, Kristina and Roworth-Stokes, Seymour; “The Role and Use of Creative Practice in Research and Its Contribution to Knowledge,” in International Association of Societies of Design Research (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2007), 15