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Exploring Situatedness in Partnership with ELIA, Part 2
  • ISSN: 1474-273X
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Abstract

Artists have always related to what happens around them, both on local and global levels. The professorship ‘Artistic Connective Practices’ at Fontys Academy of the Arts in Tilburg, the Netherlands, addresses the notion of ‘artistic connectivity’ as a lens towards artistic research in relation to society. One of the central approaches of the professorship is the form of artistic research residencies: artist-researchers engage in the context at hand, from a socially engaged perspective and work with what the people and contexts have to offer. We choose for a situated approach and consciously leave space for the residencies, their forms and purposes to emerge from the ground up. In this article, I share the notion of artistic connectivity and the approach of socially engaged artistic research residencies and explore how such approaches can contribute to situatedness as a conceptual framework for socially engaged artistic practice and research.

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Exploring connectivity through artistic research residencies: A situated perspective
Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education 24, 211 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1386/adch_00121_1
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Keyword(s): art residencies; artistic connectivity; research in and through artistic practice; situated knowledges; situatedness; socially engaged art

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