Artistic Research in Rural Areas & Aesthetic Practice in Research

At the end of the year we had a workshop on artistic research with Elise v. Bernstorff and the project team. This was about research that has already taken place as well as research that is still in process. Artistic research is characterized by the ability to integrate cognitive and bodily-habitual forms of knowledge into research, to elicit questions of corporeality, feelings, intensities, and to be able to establish connections. In accordance with a concept of knowledge culture that does not understand knowledge as a corpus of objective truths, but rather thinks about the extent to which it is produced through social as well as performative contexts of action, we assume that there is always a need for corporeal forms of cultural practice. In the context of the performative turn in cultural studies, artistic research shifts focus from the text to the processes of making, doing, and acting.