Join writer and curator Lucy Cotter at the SVA launch of her new edited volume RECLAIMING ARTISTIC RESEARCH*—commissioned by 17, Institute for Critical Studies, Mexico City, and out now from Hatje Cantz.

It is not just one of the issues, it is the issue of current art schools and their politics: artistic research. But what is artistic research really about and what does it mean for contemporary art? All too often, weight is given to the academic aspect and the artistic part is overshadowed. The more interesting question is how art knows: how artistic thinking develops through artistic processes and takes shape in artworks.

In twenty conversations with leading artists—Lawrence Abu Hamdan , Katayon Arian, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Sher Doruff, Em’kal Eyongakpa, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Natasha Ginwala, Sky Hopinka, Manuela Infante, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Grada Kilomba, Sarat Maharaj, Emma Moore, Rabih Mroué, Christian Nyampeta, Yuri Pattison, Falke Pisano, Sarah Rifky, Samson Young, and Katarina Zdjelar—Cotter maps out an epistemology of artistic creation today. She manifests a type of research that is dynamically engaged with other fields, but thinks beyond concepts into bodily and material knowledge that exceeds language, revolutionizing our perception of art from the ground up.*

RECLAIMING ARTISTIC RESEARCH—BOOK LAUNCH WITH LUCY COTTER AND GUESTS

Thursday, October 24, at 7 pm.

School of Visual Arts, MA Curatorial Practice

132 West 21st Street, 10th floor, New York City.

From top: Katarina Zdjelar, Shoum, 2009, Tent, Rotterdam, installation view; Em’kal Eyongakpa, Breathe II, 2013, Sharjah Art Foundation; Lucy Cotter, editor, Reclaiming Artistic Research, Hatje Cantz; Euridice Zaituna Kala, Measure the Valley, 2018, Résidences Internationales d’Artistes MAGCP; Sky Hopinka, film still. Images courtesy and © the artists, photographers, venues, and publishers.