This workshop focuses on the study of research-based art practices and the implementation of a research project. Research-based art, as a practice, grew alongside the development of conceptual art and involves conducting artistic research on a particular subject and presenting it. Research-based art is a performing practice, since artistic research, unlike scientific research, is the manifestation of the artist’s subjective view on this or that topic. Being institutional by nature, research-based art has a great cognitive and educational significance.
The workshop comprises two main thematic directions of research:
a) Art explores its inner world,
b) Art explores its outside world, that is, the context in which it evolves.
This workshop involves the study of various performing practices (curating, critical writing, documenting, collecting and archiving) that ensure the public circulation of artworks. Associating performance with period, postmodern theorists consider it to be the symbolic
practice of the period that characterizes and represents the nature and spirit of the performance period, not this or that object or person, but both together in one unified performance. There is no representation, no object or person, not even reality. Hence arises the question of studying
the framework (the structure, the institution): no representation exists outside the framework that creates the conventional:
a) Theory and history of curating,
b) Theory and history of art criticism,
c) Museology (collection, exhibition, preservation),
d) Theory of translation (literary, cultural, media, and other).
This workshop focuses on the research of contemporary visual culture and the issues raised by various visual practices. How are we supposed to decipher the codes of the images flooding our surroundings, which often do not originate from art, but from media and technology, and
address different aspects of social life? On the other hand, how are we supposed to read the messages of those images or things that were produced for non-artistic purposes or using aesthetic forms, hiding the ideas that gave birth to them in the demands of everyday life? These
are the type of questions that can drive researches which in turn references the following theoretical frameworks:
a) Visual culture,
b) Image and text theories,
c) Visual symbolism,
d) Cultural studies, media studies.
