International Forum on Artistic Research
17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR)
Submission Number: 28
Submission ID: 60
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Created: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 - 10:15
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Submitted by: Henk Borgdorff
Language: English

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Given name Henk
Surname Borgdorff
Email borgdorff@freedom.nl
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Title Artistic Research and the Lingering Gaze of Thought
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Main language English
Abstract I will start with addressing so-called ’non-traditional research outputs’. That will be an entry to say something more in general about the place of artistic research in academia and its possible alignments with other research fields. I then want to highlight four aspects of artistic research: the agency of practices and things; the importance of practice-based methods; the condition of knowledge, specifically 4E-cognition; and the articulation and publication of artistic research. I need those aspects in order to say something about discursivity and the role of language.
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  • Henk Borgdorff is emeritus professor of Research in the Arts at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), Leiden University and the Royal Conservatoire, University of the Arts, The Hague. He was editor of the Journal for Artistic Research (until 2015), co-founder of the Research Catalogue, and president of the Society for Artistic Research (2015-2019). Borgdorff has published widely on the theoretical and political rationale of research in the arts. See his profile page on the Research Catalogue: www.researchcatalogue.net.
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