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Review of Corina Caduff and Tan Wälchli (eds.), "Artistic Research and Literature"

Tobias Servaas
I like to think of artistic research as the union of knowledge and subjectivity, perhaps as rebellion against the large body of so-called ‘objective’ knowledge that is produced by most other scientists and researchers. It came as no surprise to me, then, that a collection of meta-reflective essays on artistic research and literature appeared as a polyphony of individual voices, a diversity worth celebrating.
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Review of Gemma Anderson, “Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science”

Barbara Graf
The title of the publication is on point; especially if the term “drawing” is not only perceived as a verb but also as a noun. Artist researcher Gemma Anderson interrogates drawing as representation, as process, and as communication. She emphasizes that, on one hand, knowledge as well as insights become manifest in the outcome of drawing as a graphic representation, but on the other hand they also unfold during the process of drawing. In the introduction, the author underlines the value of drawing as a research tool by providing an overview of historical and current positions in exhibitions, projects, and books.
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Review of Michael Schwab (ed.), "Transpositions. Aesthetico-Epistemic Operators in Artistic Research"

Theodor Barth
What I have learned from reading—or, working my way through—the book reviewed in this piece, is that a) the concept of transposition is multiple and needs a polythetic definition [like the strands/fibres of a rope] to be readable across the contributions in the volume; b) it gives no place for a reader-over-and-above the text-materials gathered in the anthology [cf. Donna Haraway’s god-trick], but she must invent herself as a reader in each contribution.
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Review of Johanna Schindler, "Subjectivity and Synchrony in Artistic Research: Ethnographic Insights, Culture and Social Practice"

Manuel Ángel-Macía
Discourses and discussions of artistic research are often characterised by their rhetorics of positivity and potentiality. Such discourses are usually premised on an optimistic celebration of the potentials of artistic research as an emerging space for academic production. Either as a conventional protocol or a more cynical attempt to manage the field, this core positivity continues to inform claims about what artistic research can or cannot do.
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