O'Donoghue Studio 1 | International Forum on Artistic Research

Studio 1 in the O'Donoghue Centre at the University of Galway is an 81-square-meter rehearsal space (10.7m x 7.7m) used for teaching and theatre practice.

Other format 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 9:30am - 10:10am

The Prompter: Discord, Care, and Cues for Survival

Presented by: Richie Lux Kramár

Experimental format 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 10:10am - 10:50am

Cosmologies of Worldbuilding

Presented by: Clareese Hill, Monica Storss, Angelique

Roundtable 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 10:10am - 11:10am

Artistic Research in Jazz and Popular Music: Relevance, Potential and Challenges

Project presentation 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 10:50am - 11:30am

BLOCK LETTERS and Cursive Mountains: State-Writing, Sonic Mimesis, and the Virtual Topographies of the Dengbêj

Presented by: Savas Boyraz

Project presentation 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 12:10pm - 12:50pm

Epistemologies in a Minor Key: Theorizing Creative Artefacts as Knowledge Entities

Presented by: Fiona Woods

Experimental format 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 12:50pm - 1:30pm

Found/Fabric Lab

Presented by: Ora Ferdman

Workshop 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 3:10pm - 4:30pm

Mutable Data: Artistic Apophatic Research

Presented by: Merel Visse, Ryan Woodring

Workshop 🗓️ Wednesday, 24 June — 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Doors to the Future: Imagining more humane migration futures

Presented by: Carolyn Defrin

Performance 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 3:10pm - 3:50pm

Holdings

Presented by: Mel Galley

Project presentation 🗓️ Thursday, 25 June — 3:50pm - 4:30pm

Code-Switching Cartographies: Sound, Language, and Ancestral Resistance in Intermedia Practice

Presented by: Lisa Mayes

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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.