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conducting an artistic research
lecture

The lecture focuses on what is an artistic research, and what is at stakes in conducting a research where practice and theory intertwine. Emilie Gallier starts from her experience in undertaking a practice-led research within the Master of Choreography of ArtEZ, to approach the following questions: How to critically explore one’s interests in order to find a topic? How to narrow to a manageable scope through the articulation of the research question? And how does the latter guide the research? What is specific in arts research methodologies? Emilie will expose her use of a ‘ground’ that represents the core, which links the multiple layers of her practice. How to identify sources? How to assemble resources and build an argument, choreographing the writing? What knowledge can a practical enquiry reveal that cannot be revealed by other modes of investigations?
Providing students with one approach for conducting an artistic research, she demonstrates a model for navigating between different ways of being (choreographer, critical thinker, writer) and for investigating a problem through multiple lenses.

By Emilie Gallier, after the invitaton by Krisin de Groot, ArtEZ Dansacademie Bachelor program, October 2011.