(original text written in Portuguese and placed for automatic translation in Google translator - no correction)

Even though Eisenhüttenstadt is not very far from Berlin, the 'first socialist city in Germany', planned and built in the 1950s, is still clearly separated, as a cultural space, from the nearby cosmopolitan city, preserving the idea of a different society in its urban layout and architecture.

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Digital Stage initiative emerged as a salient example of how artistic research is able to shape technology development, in order to facilitate an artistic appropriation of digital space.

 “Political Imagination and Alternative Futures” is a multidisciplinary post-doctoral study combining methods of ethnography and artistic research. It is funded by Academy of Finland and realized at The University of Turku (2020-2024). The aim of the research is to explore how political imagination is practiced among different groups of people, including artists and activists, as well as different kinds of alternative communities in Finland.

Este texto pretende ser una crónica testimonial contingente acerca del debate sobre investigación artística desde el punto de vista del proceso constituyente chileno, a fin de recapitular sus aspectos centrales y suscitar nuevas reflexiones y acciones al respecto. La Convención Constitucional comenzó a sesionar el pasado 4 de julio de 2021 y hoy mismo, 29 de septiembre, terminará de aprobar su Reglamento.

In his now well-known monograph on artistic research published in 2010, Julian Klein makes the provocative statement that the question: ‘what is artistic research?’ is, in fact, the wrong question to pose.

With the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid development of digital technology, the topic of digital identity and space have entered people’s daily lives. Telepresence has also become more dominant in work, education, society, and creative practice This reflective article discusses the use of telepresence for creative practitioners in the context of the pandemic.

Wind tugging at my sleeve
feet sinking into the sand
I stand at the edge where earth touches ocean

What does art do? While academic claims differ greatly, they agree that it does something – it moves, translates, mediates, sells well, is labelled and discussed widely. However, the ways art and society are intertwined in these unsettling and uncertain times need to be discussed and (re-)negotiated. The online ‘ESA-Arts 11th midterm conference - THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF ART’ in March 2021 provided a platform to elaborate on sociological approaches in arts research and the relevance of art practice for academia.

In 2020, doctoral student Bogdan Szyber’s thesis was rejected by Stockholm University of the Arts. He said that the field of artistic research is “fake” and that "the empress has no clothes." (All translations by Per Zetterfalk, unless otherwise noted.) This has led to a debate about artistic research in Sweden. Research where art and academia meet.