Changes in Art Educations: Arts Based Research - Research Based Art
Changes in Art Educations: Arts Based Research - Research Based Art
Thursday, 10 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: FSE022 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC37 Sociology of Arts (host committee) Language: English
In their epilogue to the German artist Hans Haackes book; Framing and being framed from 1975, Howard Becker and John Walton concludes that although several artists may work in a similar way as researchers, there is a difference between art and science; art belongs to another sphere, that give meaning to art. However, since the 1990s many Western art educations have been included in the university sector of their country, which has led to a change from art schools to more scientific oriented educations. Among the consequences may be the development of Research based art, as well as Art based research. In her essay, Information overload from 2023, the art historian Claire Bishop says that the presence of Research based art is almost mandatory in any serious exhibition: Postcards, faxes and e-mail printouts in a vitrine, rows of leaflets, graphs and charts, tables filled with documents and texts. She also claims that this development is inseparable from the rise of doctoral programs for artists, specifically in Europe, from the 1990s. Although many works of art may resemble research, they often appear as a part of a research process, without drawing a conclusion or answering a research question. This session invites papers on, or related to, changes towards science in art educations, and similar changes in art practices, during the last 2-3 decades.
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