Artistic Research - A Spark for Re-Enlightenment through the Arts?

15.06.2013, 19:00

Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Campo S.Agnese-Dorsoduro 810, I-30123 Venezia

Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Henk Borgdorff (University of the Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands), Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany), Prof. Gertrud Sandqvist (Lund University/Malmö Art Academy, Sweden), Prof. Giaco Schiesser (Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland) (moderator: Jörg Scheller, curator of the Salon Suisse)

Much has been discussed about artistic research. Is art a form of knowledge and research in its own right? Is artistic research triggered primarily by economic interests? However, one question has rarely been asked: To what extent could the current proliferation of artistic research re-evoke seminal aspects of the aesthetics and ethics of Enlightenment? One of the core demands of the thinkers of Enlightenment was that art and culture should react upon the progress of society. Could artistic research be the missing link between arty aloofness on the one hand side, and societal or economic absorption of the arts on the other hand?

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    • Cast

      Prof. Dr. Henk Borgdorff (University of the Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands), Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany), Prof. Gertrud Sandqvist (Lund University/Malmö Art Academy, Sweden), Prof. Giaco Schiesser (Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland), moderator: Jörg Scheller (curator of the Salon Suisse)