Abstract / Description of output
In this article I discuss the possibility of and the necessity for dissident researchers in academia. I investigate the strategies of interruption as methods of engaging with the institution through artistic research and approaches. Art as a dissensual activity turns artistic research into a dissident research that can serve to question academic consensus rather than conforming to its established structure.
In order to construct a dissident researcher, I go through three short architectural narrations of three places: a prison (as discipline), a school of architecture (as artistic research) and a library (as dominant discourse). These three narrations are combined with three formulae: amateur, fiction, misperformance or disloyalty; each acts as certain characteristics of dissidence that are pertinent to an ongoing micro-project explained here. Together, these aim to raise the question: How does perceiving artistic research as dissident research modify conventional evaluation systems and set up new evaluating strategies based on politics of dissidence?
In order to construct a dissident researcher, I go through three short architectural narrations of three places: a prison (as discipline), a school of architecture (as artistic research) and a library (as dominant discourse). These three narrations are combined with three formulae: amateur, fiction, misperformance or disloyalty; each acts as certain characteristics of dissidence that are pertinent to an ongoing micro-project explained here. Together, these aim to raise the question: How does perceiving artistic research as dissident research modify conventional evaluation systems and set up new evaluating strategies based on politics of dissidence?
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Unpublished - 2015 |
| Event | International Symposium Transvaluation: Making the World Matter. - Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 21 May 2015 → 22 May 2015 https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/ace/news/Pages/Transvaluation-Making-the-world-matter-2015.aspx |
Conference
| Conference | International Symposium Transvaluation: Making the World Matter. |
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| Country/Territory | Sweden |
| City | Gothenburg |
| Period | 21/05/15 → 22/05/15 |
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Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- dissident, amateur, misperformance, interrupting architecture, artistic research, fiction