Our research team is engaging in critical enquiry about artistic research practices, and questioning their transformative potential. On this website, we publish a body of critical knowledge that supports the organisation’s mission. This knowledge comes from our projects, and from our interactions with academic researchers, artists, practitioners, policy experts, activists and others .
Natasha Dhillon (ND) and Amin Husain (AH), are MTL, a collaboration that joins research, aesthetics, organizing and action in practice discuss in conversation and through drawing Art and Research.
Transcription of the conversation:
Annabelle Boissier (AB): How did you start to work together? How do you work with Art and Research?
AH:… Continue Reading
Interview with Art Anthropologist and Historian Kirsten Scheid
Annabelle Boissier
As part of our ongoing commitment to the MENA region, we are developing an interview series with Art Historians and Curators who chose to devote their career to the promotion of Middle-Eastern and North African art. Our aim is to give… Continue Reading
Interview with Anthropologist and Dramaturg Bernard Müller
Annabelle Boissier
Bernard Müller is a researcher/lecturer in social anthropology (PhD 2000), dramaturg and scientific/cultural programme designer. He is associate member of IRIS (EHESS, Paris) and Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Leipzig (Germany). Dedicated to the cultural history of West Africa (Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo,… Continue Reading
Thanavi Chotpradit
When the French Royal Academy established a hierarchy of genres in the mid-seventeenth century based on a distinction between imitare – art that made an intellectual effort to “render visible the universal essence of things” and ritrarre – art that merely consisted of “mechanical copying of particular appearances”,… Continue Reading
Interview with Art Historian Nadia Radwan
Annabelle Boissier
As part of our ongoing commitment to the MENA region, we are starting an interview series with Art Historians and Curators who chose to devote their career to the promotion Middle-Eastern and North African art. Our aim is to give their work more… Continue Reading
Culture … is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”.
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917)
Erik Vlaeminck
In his seminal definition of culture, Edward Burnett Tylor placed culture at the heart of society, and men… Continue Reading
Interview with Art Sociologist Jérémie Vandenbunder
Annabelle Boissier
Following our interrogation about Art & Research interactions, we asked French sociologist, Jérémie Vandenbunder, to qualify this relation within the French educational art system. Step by step, we try to understand how institutions, and their transformations, impact how artists deal with theory.
Annabelle Boissier
Art and research is not only a matter of free collaboration between artists and researchers. Since 2008, it’s a political, educational, bureaucratic issue in Europe. On this matter, the French debate is extensive. Is it because of the history of art education in France? Indeed, the separation that… Continue Reading
Blanka Konopka
What is it about the specific properties of Artistic Research that allow us to make the case for its contribution to development and social change? In the next few months, this question will form the basis of Arts Cabinet’s research focus, culminating in the publication of an extended… Continue Reading
Annabelle Boissier
Theoretical models no longer embrace contemporary issues as a whole. The first phase of Arts Cabinet’s work in the MENA region revealed that the concept of Post-colonialism, the duality between North and South or gender approach amongst others, and therefore the paradigms of modernity and post-modernity, can’t… Continue Reading
