Call for proposals: 2020 Artistic Research conference in Sweden

Researchers from both specific and interdisciplinary fields, artists, and academics within performative and mediated practices are encouraged to submit their proposals. Proposals with experimental approaches are highly encouraged.

“The focus and format of the conference will emerge directly from the subjects, ideas, and topics present in the research of those selected to present,” Stockholm University of the Arts said. “Alliances and Commonalities is a place, a group of people, and a possibility for Artistic Research to challenge and inspire us as both individuals and community.”

Interested participants can submit their proposals here.  The application deadline is 2 November. Successful applicants will be notified in February.

Stockholm University of the Arts research is based in four profile areas therefore, interested participants are encouraged to direct their proposal to one, which resonates most with their research project.

The profile areas include:

• Concept and composition: This area explores the myriad web of influences, inspirations, methods, and techniques that artists use in their artistic and creative processes. 

• Bodily and vocal practices: This area explores the techniques, methods and systems used in the articulation, interpretation and communication of creative ideas and visions using body and voice. 

• Site, event, encounter: This area explores the interplay between art and society, considering the mutable nature of participation in contemporary art practices/processes/events and the many and various contexts and conditions in which 21st Century artists work.

• Art, technology, materiality: This area addresses the material and social conditions and networks occurring in and engaged through, an artistic practice. 

Project eligibility

The proposed projects can be in any stage of development and should answer the following questions:

1. In situating Artistic Research within a broader global/social context, how might our research address subjectivity and inclusivity?
2. During a time of rising divisiveness, how do we forge connections through Artistic Research that both illuminate our differences and highlights the need for individual and group responsibility towards each other and the planet? 
3. How might our work engage with and in the experiences and perspectives of people outside of our immediate contexts, and continue to explore the specificity of our own personal ethical and aesthetic values?

For more information on the Alliances and Commonalities conference in Artistic Research, email Stockholm University of the Arts at: ac2020.skh@uniarts.se.

View the original call here.