Art as a research proposal
Voices from different areas are increasingly saying that art cannot fundamentally evolve and take place in the current research environments in universities of the arts. The applicants are taking this doubt about the transferability of art into research seriously and turning it into a productive competition for this project: (1) Kaspar König is using the fsp-t wind tunnel for his exclusively artistic production and presents his current work to the fsp-t team each month. (2) The tables are then turned and the project staff try to draft a research proposal from the artistic projects and approaches together with the fsp-t team. (The 6 proposals can be ordered at the secretariat).
The specific problems of writing a proposal will be analysed more closely and refined by the collision between artistic drive and scientific research rhetoric. Where and why does art perish so often in proposals? Where do new ways of aesthetic thinking open up even in the proposal reasoning? I.e. how and where do we find suitable research scenarios for artistic production?