This April issue of FORUM+ celebrates interwovenness and the sense of community that can be felt within diverse artistic collaborations. At the heart of FORUM+ is a dynamic network of researchers, artists, and thinkers who interact across the boundaries of artistic disciplines, institutions, languages, and countries. With the support of all contributors, a community emerges that not only documents research in the arts, but actively shapes it – borne through exchange, critical reflection, and a shared curiosity. We hope you will enjoy reading this issue of FORUM+ as much as we enjoyed making it.
Nele Wynants
The cover of this FORUM+ issue features elements from Night Journey, an artistic research tapestry that depicts traveling mountains in a nocturnal landscape. This work resulted from a collaboration …
Ira A. Goryainova
Continuing her previous text on writing and filming through the body, Ira A. Goryainova explores the dynamic between the politics of the gaze and the power of the image. In proposing to consider the …
Veronika Szalai
This contribution explores the aesthetic nature of play from the player's perspective, examining the “power of maddening” inherent in play states. It delves into the emotional fabric of play while …
Eliana Sánchez-Aldana, Isabela Ortiz Jaramillo, Laura Díaz-Dangond, María Alejandra Cubillos Garay
This is a fictional story that questions the traditional interweaving of technoscience. It goes through the fibres to un-weave or un-make the essentialist borders created between humans and machines. …
Chiara Percivati
This contribution presents the experience of the Future Shock Orchestra, an interfaculty laboratory on instrument invention and augmentation developed collaboratively by the Royal Conservatoire …
Luis Ortiz, Gabriel Rossell Santillán
Global chains of capital production have displaced and destroyed innumerable nonhuman and human beings worldwide. We address this complexity with an artistic research tapestry titled Night Journey …
Nathan De Feyter, Thomas Vanoutrive, Johan De Walsche
This paper investigates the political dimensions of visual language in architectural representation through Participatory Action Research (PAR). It critiques traditional architectural visuals, which …
Natalie Loveless, Assia Bert
“What might a progressive and responsible research environment for artistic research and artistic researchers on all education and career levels look like?” This was one of the key questions during …
Paul Craenen
Several bookshelves have been devoted to the rise of artistic research in academia in recent decades. While by no means has a consensus been reached on ‘the being’ (the ontology) and ‘the knowing’ (the epistemology) of the discipline, the focus in recent publications seems to be shifting more towards methodological aspects and best practices.
