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An 17ú Comhdháil de chuid Chumann na Taighde Ealaíonta (SAR)

Articulating Artistic Research: Language and Poetics

🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 12:10pm - 1:10pm (60 mins)
Abstract
This session investigates how artistic research through language and poetics opens new critical and creative possibilities. Panelists will explore the anti-hegemonic potential of concepts, words, and languages in their practices; examine poetry as an autonomous form of artistic research with its own methodologies; discuss how the meaning of words shifts and is misappropriated, such as terms stolen from the Anti-Fascist Dictionary by the far right; and consider how loose conceptualism can guide and counter tendencies of pinning down, emphasizing the potentiality of movements across figures, media, and historical moments. The conversation will also address the delegitimization of the human condition as cultural bonds between corporeality and language dissolve.
An 17ú Comhdháil de chuid Chumann na Taighde Ealaíonta (SAR)

Welcome to SAR 2026

Endangered Conceptual Worlds

The 2026 International Forum on Artistic Research takes place from 23 to 26 June 2026. Hosted by the University of Galway on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, the Forum addresses the challenges of Endangered Conceptual Worlds. As the 17th annual conference of the Society for Artistic Research it is the largest conference on practice-based research within and through the arts, bringing together more than 300 international participants: leading practitioners, scholars and policymakers from the entire range of arts-based disciplines.

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Slightly extended deadline for submissions

The 2026 Forum on Artistic Research website has been inaccessible for several hours on Friday night and Saturday morning. Unfortunately, an update to the web server was scheduled to take place, which automatically activated maintenance mode and prevented any work on the submissions during the night and the next morning. We have therefore decided to slightly extend the deadline for submissions to Monday 2 March 2026 at 23:59 GMT. Feel free to work on your proposals until then.