ARTISTIC RESEARCH IN A WORLD ON FIRE

Artistic Research in a World on Fire is a series of talks, workshops, screenings, and live performances curated by Lucy Cotter in conjunction with the release of her new book, Reclaiming Artistic Research – Expanded Second Edition (2024). Cotter is a Stelo Arts project resident 2023-34.

This rolling series of events (at Stelo Arts and locations outside Portland), taking place in 2024-2025 will be announced on an ongoing basis. Join us for these upcoming events!

About Reclaiming Artistic Research:

Reclaiming Artistic Research – Expanded Second Edition (2024) explores artistic research in dialogue with 24 artists worldwide and embraces artists’ dynamic engagement with other fields. Reclaiming the term “artistic research” from its academic associations, the book foregrounds the material, spatial, embodied, organizational, choreographic, and technological ways of knowing and unknowing specific to contemporary artistic inquiry.

Through in-depth conversations, the book follows artistic thinking in practice, tracing how ideas and forms co-emerge through material, conceptual, and embodied ways of working. The second expanded edition of this internationally acclaimed book features a new essay by Lucy Cotter entitled “Artistic Research in a World on Fire” that reflects on the changing stakes of artistic research in the wake of the global pandemic, a widespread reckoning with social justice and equity, the growing role of artificial intelligence, and the urgent reality of climate change.

Reclaiming Artistic Research manifests how artists produce new paradigms and questions, rather than supplementing existing knowledge, and how their ways of working can potentially contribute to the decolonization of knowledge. The second edition features four new dialogues with US-based artists Stephanie Dinkins, Yo-Yo Lin, Richard Mosse, and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Stelo Artist in Residence 2020-21), whose practices attend to human and nonhuman survival, self-care, and collective care, new technologies, and the unlearning of ableist, gendered, sexist, and racist paradigms.

Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin with the support of Stelo in conjunction with a project residency 2023-24.

For further information see www.reclaimingartisticresearch.com

BIO

Lucy Cotter is a writer, artist, and curator whose practice engages with art as a form of knowledge and a site for radical cultural transformation. Her critical and experimental writing has appeared in journals (Flash Art, Hyperallergic, Frieze, Mousse, Artforum), academic books, and catalogs. She was curator of the Dutch Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017, and Curator in Residence at Oregon Center for Contemporary Art 2021-2, with additional projects at The Kitchen, New York, Kunstinstitut Melly, Rotterdam, the Stedelijk Museum, and EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam. Cotter has lectured at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute and was the inaugural director of the Master Artistic Research program at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. She holds a PhD in Cultural Analysis focused on decolonizing curatorial practice. Irish-born, she is based in Portland, where she is a project resident at Stelo Arts and Culture Foundation, 2023-24.