Gwen Rakotovao

Gwen Rakotovao is a choreographer, dancer, and artist-researcher working at the intersection of performance and cultural inquiry. She received her MA in Performance Studies from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and is currently a PhD candidate at Stockholm University of the Arts. Her work unfolds internationally across stage and research contexts. Bridging choreographic practice and academic inquiry, her research engages cultural memory and diaspora, with a particular focus on a Malagasy funeral ritual as site of embodied knowledge and choreographic thinking.

Forum Contribution

Shaping the Future of Artistic Research

Methods in multiplicity: Embodied and contemporary ancestral knowledge in times of transition

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.

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.