Here we have collected the Programme, Call for Presentations and Call for Participation in PDF format.

Developing a Discourse

«A high-powered conversation or ideas exchange» – this is the description one of the 70 participants – artists, designers, and academic staff in higher art and design edu­cation – gave of last year’s Sensuous Knowledge conference. And now the Bergen National Academy of the Arts (Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, KHiB) is once again preparing its annual
international conference at Solstrand, close to Bergen, Norway. Also this time it will be a conference with a few agenda setting key note speeches, but first of all with ample time for discussing examples of artistic research and development presented by the participantsin the working groups.

The first Sensuous Knowledge conference was held in October 2004. Its subtitle, «Creatinga Tradition», pointed to the double aim of the whole series: to develop ways of talking about, analyzing and evaluating various kinds of artistic R&D, and to consider the special character of cognition related to artistic creativity.

The 2005 conference, subtitled «Aesthetic Practice and Aesthetic Insight», focused on the latter aim. Presentations and discussions centered around the question whether artistic R&D should take the natural sciences as a model, try to develop strict methods and hope for new, factual and generalizable knowledge, or whether it should rather gather inspirationfrom the humanities, develop hermeneutic methods and try to provide some kind of broader insight.

Klaus Jung in discussions after his key note speech at SK3. Photo: Peter Klasson

With the subtitle «Developing a Discourse» we want this year’s Sensuous Knowledge conference to focus on – and maybe experiment with – various ways of presenting, arguingabout,and reflecting on examples of artistic R&D. And while the 2005 conference was concerned with the boundary between artistic R&D and traditional research, the
2006 one will treat the relationship of artistic R&D to art and design as such. We expect presenters to address the question what makes their work an example of R&D and not (only) a work of art or a design product. And we expect the discussions in the groups to start from here. Maybe the difference is not so much between the actual products,
but rather lies in the way we talk about them? Maybe the difference is a question of discourse?

SK3 Conference Programme 2006

SK3 Call for Participation 2006

SK3 Call for Presentations 2006

Artist, Professor, Head of School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art

Image emancipation

The presentation will include three chapters: Reasons to Engage, The Territory of Research and the Arts, and Examples of his own Research.

www.klausjung.com

Artist, Professor and MA Coordinator, Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHiB)

It’s only words!

An audio-visual presentation addressing the theme ”Developing a Discourse”.

A Radical Witness
Jill Gibbon
Research Student, Wimbledon School of Art
(Visual art/theory)

What makes research? Writing as a possibility in art and design research
Johanna Pentikäinen
Post-doc Researcher, School of Visual Culture, University of Art and Design, Helsinki

Sticky Praxis: A phenomenological approach to technology as the ‘glue’ between landscape experiences and visual representation
Bren Unwin
PhD student, University of Hertfordshire
Fine Art (Painting/printmaking)

Transformation of Baumgarten’s aesthetics into a tool for analysing works, for the process of formation, and for the creation of forms – a methodological study
Bente Dahl Thomsen
Associate Professor, Dept of Architecture and Design, Aalborg University
Tine Munk, Artist, Aalborg

Public Spaces/Public Bodies – Staged Spaces/Staged Bodies
Karen Kipphoff
Professor, Dept. of Fine Art, KHiB
www.snafu.de/~kakidami
www.bek.no/~kk

Rehearsal considered as a research process – the case of an international opera project
Niels Windfeld Lund
Professor , Documentation Studies, University of Tromsø

An illustration of how research can generate research: examining the progression of ideas and concepts used throughout a series of related research projects.
Paul Thirkell
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England

To create a space for research (Att skapa ett rum för forskning)
Cecilia Lagerström
Researcher, Høgskolan for scen och musik, Göteborg Universitety
(Theatre)

Fine Art & Medicine
Christine Borland
Artist, Academic Researcher, Studio 55, Glasgow School of Art

Experimental design discourse- the dual nature of design methods
Lars Hallnäs
Professor, Composer,
The Swedish School of Textiles, University College of Borås and Interactive Institute, Chalmers University of Technology

Practice based research in art and media
PRAMnet by some of the following:
Jørgen Callesen, Michael Johansson, Katrine Nilsen, Jette Lund

Inpassing: street, fashion and creation of meaning in public space
I Förbigåande: gatan, mode och skapande av mening i det offentliga rummet
Kajsa G Eriksson
PhD student, The Swedish School of Textiles, University College of Borås
(Fashion design)

Questioning the incomplete – Visual art as part in collaborations
Sissel Lillebostad
Assistant Professor Bergen National Academy of the Arts
(Dept. of Spesialised Art)

Long-term photographic observation of urban development 2005-2020
Meret Wandeler
Dozentin, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich

Dance Lecture – Performance
Carolien Hermans
PhD student , Amsterdam School for the Arts

What if we believe in art?
John Hyatt
Director MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University
(Fine art)

Late medieval plainsong performance practice traced in local and contemporary sources: towards a present-day performance strategy
Hendrik van den Abeele
PhD student Faculty of Arts, Leiden University

One Street in Berlin Developing a new ethnographical-sensual method
Alex Arteaga
Sound Artist, Assistant Lecturer, Studio of Music and Sound Art, University of the Arts, Berlin

An Investigation of the Application of Textile Techniques to Metals
Norman Cherry
Head of School of Jewellery, University of Central England in Birmingham

Performing Landscape
Annette Arlander
Professor, Theatre Adademy, Finland

Writing/Art: new Challenges and Possibilities for Art Research
Katy Macleod
Senior Lecturer, University of Plymouth

Artist, theorist and curator. Researcher at Institute for Theory of Art and Design, HGK, Zurich and the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Geneva.

The Maghreb Connection – Movements of Life across North Africa

Art and research project focusing on systems and modalities of migratory movements which constitute the Maghreb and Mediterranean area. From a range of aesthetic positions, the project seeks to develop discursive and visual representations of the growing complexity of North African mobility in relation with the development of the European Union.

In parallel to the agreements about “free movement” inside the European Union, its external borders are increasingly being sealed. In this new scheme, the Maghrebi migrants and those sub-Saharans who use the Maghreb as transit zone are perceived as a threat. While this notion of an invasion – largely spread by the European media – seems to legitimate the restrictive political measures concerning immigration, the European economy reaches further down into the Maghreb to establish giant transnational logistic centres or to find cheap labour for outsourced production. At this point, the relations between Europe and Africa have entered a new post-colonial phase.

In the Maghreb, migration flows rely on – and intersect with – other forms of organized mobility such as existing nomadic movements, tourism, roaming martial formations including rebel groups, and migration related humanitarian personnel. The junction of these movements generates synergies, conflicts, and sometimes surprising alliances. THE MAGHREB CONNECTION aims to develop a visual representation of the connective space that emerges in the process. This geographic approach (geography being understood as a signifying system that allows us to understand the relation between subject, movement and space) focuses on specific zones of transit migration, such as Agadez in Niger, Lampedusa off the Tunisian shore, Oujda and Tangier in Morocco, Laayoune in the Western Sahara and Cairo as a destinations for migrants coming through the Suez canal. After in-depth research and investigation, the artists have developed works under various forms, such as cartography, video, photography, text or animation.

The collaborative research project includes artists and theorists from Cairo, Morocco, Spain and Italy as well as art researchers from the esba envionment in Geneva. The exhibition launches in Townhouse Gallery, Cairo in December 2006, before travelling to the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva in February 07 and to further stations in Europe.

Geobodies – Ursula Biemann’s gender and geography site