- Title
- The frontiers of artistic research: the challenge of critique, peer review and validation at the outermost limits of location-specificity.
- Creator
- Lowry, Sean; de Freitas, Nancy
- Relation
- Critique 2013. Critique 2013: Proceedings (Adelaide, SA 26-29 November, 2013) p. 197-212
- Relation
- http://www.critique2013.com/home/Proceedings.html
- Publisher
- University of South Australia
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- This paper deals with the complexity of critique in the context of contemporary artistic practice that challenges conventional spatial/temporal notions of exhibition. In an academic context, contemporary artists working in this genre face unique difficulties when it comes to the critique and validation of their work as artistic intervention or as a practice-based research outcome. For example, a public space intervention by an art activist, designed to disrupt the quotidian experience of its viewers, may be reduced through documentation to a skeletal, digitally packaged concept with significant depreciation of its artistic and aesthetic quality. Similarly, works that exist in remote geographical locations, or works that are designed and intended to transcend physical locations or to occupy space for very brief or very long periods of time provide similar challenges for critical and archival access. With specific reference to a new exhibition project space, Project Anywhere, a website devoted to this genre of work, the authors examine the difficulties and possibilities associated with critique in this context. PA has differentiated its core function by replacing the usual role of curator with a peer review model. The significance and potential value of this experimental model will emerge over time as more artworks are submitted, critiqued and archived in this open-access forum where modes of critique, artistic claims and methods of documentation can be reconsidered. The authors consider key areas for further development of this research initiative and suggest that new methods of documentation and combinations of documentation formats could better represent the work and facilitate the process of critique and validation for this rising form of contemporary artistic practice.
- Subject
- critique; peer review; artistic research; exhibition
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1058981
- Identifier
- uon:16496
- Language
- eng
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