Book Launch and Performance: April 27th, 2024 // 4PM-6PM

Stelo is delighted to announce a new book publication by our project resident writer, curator, and artist Lucy Cotter.

Reclaiming Artistic Research – Expanded Second Edition (2024) explores artistic research in dialogue with 24 artists worldwide and embraces artists’ dynamic engagement with other fields. Reclaiming the term “artistic research” from its academic associations, the book foregrounds the material, spatial, embodied, organizational, choreographic, and technological ways of knowing and unknowing specific to contemporary artistic inquiry. Through in-depth conversations, the book follows artistic thinking in practice, tracing how ideas and forms co-emerge through material, conceptual and embodied ways of working.

Portland-based performers Hannah Krafcik and Emily Jones will enact DISTANCE RITUALS, a collaborative project by one of the book’s new artist contributors, Yo-Yo Lin (with Yidan Zeng). This will be followed by a new dance-based work developed in response that forms the first public iteration of Krafcik and Jones’s new collaborative project, The Swirl.