For the 10th SAR conference on Artistic Research, the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) is back in Switzerland where the society was founded 10 years ago. The SAR conference has become the place where the international artistic research community of all disciplines meets and eats, discusses and disputes, builds networks and friendships.
Three keynote speakers will highlight the three conference topics – Productive Gaps, Enhanced Dissemination Formats, Inspiring Failures – by public lectures.
Cathy van Eck will elaborate on the topic of Enhanced Dissemination Formats in „Micorphones, loudspeakers and gestures: fostering the dialogue“ by showing the possibilites that open up between a book and a webiste publication of her ongoing research investigating microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments.
„Upon publication of her book Between Air and Electricity, Cathy van Eck launched the website MICROPHONESANDLOUDSPEAKERS.COM. This website is not only used for the audiovisual documentation of her book, but also spans further the research undertaken in her thesis by covering more, primarily contemporary case studies. Most of these new contributions are the result of a dialogue between van Eck and the artists, discussing one of their works in detail. Today, by constant and ongoing adding of cases, the website has become an evolving archive of the many ways of employing loudspeakers and microphones as musical instruments. Due to the agility of a website, and by disseminating the articles with the help of social media sites, artists and researchers exchange details on artistic ideas, technology and setup, and make suggestions for further cases for future articles on the website. Her book introduces a methodological framework to investigate historic and contemporary artistic practice. The content spans from fundamental investigation into origins and technology to the artistic practice of (mis)using microphones and loudspeakers over the last 60 years. The current analyses of works on the microphonesandloudspeakers.com website are not only used to enhance the thoughts as developed in the book. These new cases also expand the artistic ideas and sometimes even contradict them. The website is therefore approaching the topic from a present-day perspective. The dialogue between the book and website results in possible further investigations of the subject, which can be both useful in research and in education.
For her new research project on composing gestures for electronic music and sound art this artist community gets an active role from the start. By exploring productive combinations of different mediums and formats of dissemination the research process itself is not only enriched, but also becomes an ongoing exchange.“
The keynote lecture is open to the public (free entry). To participate in the sessions of the conference, one has to register and pay the registration fee. For reasons of logistics the number of participants is limited.
Thursday, 21.3.2019, 17.30–18.30, concert hall, 7th floor
Kristen Kreider & James O’Leary
„The beatiful mess we’re in“
Friday, 22.3.2019, 10–11, concert hall, 7th floor
Rebecca Hilton
„I see less, I hear less, I feel more“
Saturday, 23.3.2019, 10–11, concert hall, 7th floor
Cathy van Eck
„Microphones, loudspeakers and gestures: fostering the dialogue“
The conference lounge with a research library is open during the two and a half days.
7th floor, 7.K10
The conference language is english.
More information and detailed programme can be found on the conference
website.