SAR Conference 2023 Trondheim
Too Early/Too Late: Call for Contributions
Now closed to submissions.
What kind of artistic research practices would enable us to reflect and respond effectively to the urgencies of our moment?
A moment when it becomes increasingly clear that bug-fixing and incremental improvement cannot be enough. Rather than decoration and further embellishment, our world requires substantial, systemic change more urgently than ever before.
We are seeking examples and models of artistic research that, more than merely negotiating disciplinary divides, actively embrace them — as spaces of conceptual freedom, of creative agency, and of societal imagination.
Call for contributions / Call for reviewers / https://sar2023.no/
SAR Prize (2021) Winner Announced!
The Executive Board of SAR is delighted to announce the winner of the Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2021. “Minuting. Rethinking the Ordinary Through the Ritual of Transversal Listening” by Jacek Smolicki.
He is followed by Alexandra Crouwers with her exposition “Plot, the Compositor, Mourning/Mistakes” on the second place and Timo Menke with his exposition “DARK MATTER(S)” on the third place.
Read the complete report here.
SAR General Assembly Election Results:
We hereby announce the results of the SAR elections that took place during the SAR General assembly on 4th of July 2022 in Weimar:
Florian Schneider has been elected SAR president (for 2022-2026)
Geir Ström has been re-elected SAR First Vice President/Treasurer (for 2022-2024)
Both Blanka Chládková & Esa Kirkkopelto have been elected as SAR board member (for 2022-2026)
See “Who we are” for more information.
Call for Establishing SAR Special Interest Groups – SIGs
The Executive Board is delighted to renew its Call for Establishing SAR Special Interest Groups (SIGs). SIGs may be suggested, organised, and moderated by any SAR member (individual members, representatives of institutional members) with the aim of conducting a particular activity, theme or focus area under the umbrella of SAR and promoting the activity and its results within the SAR community.
For more information on establishing a SIG see: SAR Special Interest Groups (SIGs).
CALL FOR SOLIDARITY AND PEACE
SAR expresses its solidarity with artists and researchers who as a consequence of war now have to fear for their own lives, and of those of their families and friends. We want to express our compassion with all those innocent civilians who are suffering. We are horrified about the ruthlessness with which civilian targets are attacked in the Ukraine, and we appeal for an immediate end to aggression, bloodshed and destruction and a return to human values in sight of the global future of the planet.
Like our partner associations AEC and ELIA, we state that the artistic research community is a global community where peaceful collaborations between people of all backgrounds are a lived reality. Thousands of Ukrainian and Russian students, academics, artists and researchers in art practices are at the same time working together peacefully all over Europe and the world. We stand by all these artists, as well as with Ukrainian people, in solidarity. We likewise call on all SAR member institutions to support refugees from the war zone within their possibilities to be able to continue their art studies in a non-bureaucratic way.
The future of life on the planet depends on the human ability for peaceful conflict resolution.
The SAR Presidents, Executive Board members, and Executive Officer
Vienna declaration
SAR is proud to present the Vienna Declaration, a policy paper advocating for the full recognition of Artistic Research across Europe. More than one year ago, the main organisations and transnational networks dealing with Artistic Research at European level and beyond decided to join forces to increase the visibility and recognition of this strand of research. The Vienna Declaration, co-written by AEC, CILECT / GEECT, Culture Action Europe, Cumulus, EAAE, ELIA, EPARM, EQ-Arts, MusiQuE and SAR, is the first outcome of this important collaboration. The initiative is open to the involvement of other international organisations proving legitimate interest.
The long term aims of this concerted action, and the formulation of documents such as the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research and the Florence Principles on the Doctorate in the Arts, are to secure full recognition of artistic research both within international as well as national research directories and funding schemes.
SARA / Society for Artistic Research Announcement service
SAR enables individual and institutional members as well as non-members to distribute announcements of relevance to artistic research environments, such as symposia, conferences, exhibitions, performances, publications, study programmes, available positions etc. via a dedicated email list, reaching colleagues who have registered at the Research Catalogue (RC).
For more info or requesting an announcement, go to: sar-announcements.com