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17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR)

Fiona Hallinan

Dr Fiona Hallinan is an artist, researcher and filmmaker based between Ireland and Belgium. She co-founded the Department of Ultimology, a research practice for paying attention to endings (encompassing that which is perceived to be passing into irrelevance or redundancy or the extinction or endangerment of material and immaterial entities), which was the subject of her doctoral project at LUCA School of Arts, where she currently teaches. Her work is informed by artistic research including collective reading groups and instigating multi-form projects around endings. She has exhibited internationally including at IMMA, Ireland and Kunsthal Gent, Belgium and her film Making Dust is in the Arts Council of Ireland Collection.
17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (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.