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Given name: Ignacio









Surname: Soto-Silva









Email: ignacio.soto@ulagos.cl









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Title:  Recognising Artistic Research in the Global South: The case of the Universidad de Los Lagos, Chile









Format: Project presentation (2)









Main language: English









Abstract:
Artistic research frequently becomes legible through epistemic models consolidated in metropolitan academic centres. In regional universities of the Global South, however, it does not begin with the adoption of a disciplinary framework but with the recognition of artistic creation as knowledge already in practice. In Chile, recent higher-education legislation has formally incorporated artistic creation as a legitimate mode of knowledge production, placing it on an equivalent epistemic plane with scientific research. This juridical shift opens institutional space while simultaneously exposing unresolved tensions around validation, documentation and epistemic authority.

This presentation reflects on the institutional articulation of artistic research at the University of Los Lagos, a public university in southern Chile located on historically Mapuche Williche territory. Here, recognising artistic creation as research requires engaging with conceptual worlds shaped by indigenous memory, territorial attachment and postcolonial continuities. Legal recognition alone does not determine how such knowledge is translated into academic formats within institutions historically structured by colonial epistemologies.

Rather than importing artistic research as a stable paradigm, we approach it as a situated process of institutional translation. The establishment of a university-wide registry of artistic works functioned not simply as an instrument of measurement but as an experimental site where categories such as validation, circulation and exposition were renegotiated in dialogue with practices grounded in orality, community transmission and intergenerational cultural sedimentation. In a context marked by significant numbers of first-generation and indigenous-background students, artistic research emerges as a field of friction between academic infrastructures and lived territorial identities.










Link to the Exposition :  (https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4209793/4222925)









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Short biographies of the presenter(s):
- Ignacio Soto-Silva
  
  PhD. in Musicology from Universidad de Valladolid and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His area of research is related to the study of musical practices found in popular and traditional contexts and musical education from an intercultural perspective.
  
  He is member of the Study Group Music and Dance in Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTMD), and is president of the ICTMD National Committee in Chile. He is currently an Associate professor at the Department of Arts and Humanities at the Universidad de Los Lagos, where he coordinates for the research group GIAP10/21 “Música, cultura y territorio: debates sobre la investigación musical desde las regiones”.
  
- Leonora López
  
  Leonora López holds a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MA in Publishing from the Oxford International Centre for Publishing (UK). Her professional trajectory spans more than fifteen years in academic and cultural publishing, research on popular music and performance, and the teaching of research methodologies in higher education. She has served as editor for scholarly journals, developed independent editorial projects, and collaborated as advisor and mentor in academic writing and project development for artists, researchers, and humanities professionals. She is currently an academic, researcher, and freelance editor.










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Data projector
Projection screen or white wall
HDMI connection (USB-C adapter if needed)
Sound system with stereo speakers
Internet connection (Wi-Fi)










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