The group approaches the theme of method as an “in-between” site or moment where divergent research undertakings can usefully meet and exchange, an in-between space that enables dialogues within and beyond the artistic research domain. The basic premise of our work is that there are genealogies of method discourse other than the Cartesian (and Diltheyan), and that method talk can have utility without producing claims for universality nor proposing familiar dichotomies of subject/object – theory/practice – means/ends etc.

Members of the working group include:

• Henk Slager (HKU Utrecht)
• Iris van der Tuin (University of Utrecht)
• Maddie Leach (Hdk-Valand, Univ. of Gothenburg)
• Maria Topolčanská (Prague)
• Martin McCabe (School of Media, TU Dublin)
• Mick Wilson (Hdk-Valand, Univ. of Gothenburg) WG1 Contact
• Vytautas Michelkevicius (Vilnius)

Upcoming activities

The method group is meeting 15 January (17:00 CET) and 16 April (12:00 CET) 2024 to plan its activities for the academic cycle 2024-2025.

Previous activities

Supervisors’ workshop at “Sensing Dissensus” October 2023.

Presentation by three artist researchers from Gothenburg (The Fountain, Maddie Leach) and Utrecht (Artistic Educational Relationalities by Annette Krauss & Christina della Giustina). The panelists presented their research with particular attention to the different ways in which questions of research methodology are addressed within their current project.

A reading group doing a close reading of Denise Ferreira da Silva’s (2007) Toward A Global Idea of Race (2007). The group met on the second Monday of the month and comprised researchers from several different PhD programmes including Gothenburg, Stockholm, Dublin, Lille, and Antwerp: February 2021-Novemb3r 2022. See reading group page here.