About Reclaiming Artistic Research:

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.

The second expanded edition of this internationally acclaimed book features a new essay by Lucy Cotter entitled “Artistic Research in a World on Fire” that reflects on the changing stakes of artistic research in the wake of the global pandemic, a widespread reckoning with social justice and equity, the growing role of artificial intelligence, and the urgent reality of climate change. Reclaiming Artistic Research manifests how artists produce new paradigms and questions, rather than supplementing existing knowledge, and how their ways of working can potentially contribute to the decolonization of knowledge. 

The second edition features four new dialogues with US-based artists Stephanie Dinkins, Yo-Yo Lin, Richard Mosse and Cannupa Hanska Luger (Stelo Artist in Residence 2020-21), whose practices attend to human and nonhuman survival, self-care, and collective care, new technologies, and the unlearning of ableist, gendered, sexist, and racist paradigms. 

Dialogues with

• Lawrence Abu Hamdan

• Katayoun Arian

• Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

• Stephanie Dinkins

• Sher Doruff

• Em'kal Eyongakpa

• Ryan Gander

• Mario García Torres

• Liam Gillick

• Natasha Ginwala

• Cannupa Hanska Luger

• Sky Hopinka

• Manuela Infante

• Euridice Zaituna Kala

• Grada Kilomba

• Yo-Yo Lin

• Sarat Maharaj

• Emma Moore

• Richard Mosse

• Rabih Mroué

• Christian Nyampeta

• Yuri Pattison

• Falke Pisano

• Sarah Rifky

• Samson Young

• Katarina Zdjelar

About The Live Performance:

Portland-based performers Hannah Krafcik (@hannahkeliza) 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.

Designed by Tomáš Celizna (with Martina Vanini)

Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin [Hyperlink www.hatjecantz.com] with the support of Stelo in conjunction with a project residency 2023-

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Lucy Cotter is an Irish-born Portland-based writer, curator, artist, and theorist, whose practice engages with art as a form of knowledge and a site for cultural transformation. Her writing has been widely published in books, catalogs, and journals, including Flash Art, Hyperallergic, Frieze, Mousse, Third Text, and Artforum. She was curator of the Dutch Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale 2017. Recent curatorial projects include the year-long Turnstones exhibition and performance program at Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, 2021–22; Undoing Language: Early Performance Works by Brian O’Doherty at The Kitchen, New York, 2021, and The Unknown Artist at the Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland, 2020. Cotter holds a PhD in cultural analysis from the University of Amsterdam. She has lectured in Europe and the US and was the inaugural director of the Master Artistic Research program at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.