Lancering Thinking Back, Making Forward bij San Serriffe

• Kom naar de Amsterdamse lancering van Thinking Back, Making Forward
• Met auteurs Gerrie van Noord, Joost Grootens en ontwerpers Virginie Gauthier, Zuzana Kostelanská en Maud Vervenne

Wat: Boeklancering
Wanneer: Donderdag 24 september, 18:00 uur
Waar: San Serriffe, Sint Annenstraat 30, 1012HE Amsterdam
Toegang: Gratis, geen reservering nodig
Taal: Engels

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Auteurs Gerrie van Noord en Joost Grootens gaan in gesprek over hun artistische en academische praktijk, in een gesprek gemodereerd door Emily Rhodes. Grafisch ontwerpers Virginie Gauthier, Zuzana Kostelanská en Maud Vervenne zullen het hebben over hun benadering van het grafisch ontwerp, over de gele lijnen en de manieren waarop door de verschillende bijdragen te navigeren.

Over Thinking Back, Making Forward
In the last three decades, creative practice disciplines, such as art, design, architecture, creative writing, fashion, and others, have undergone a ‘research turn’, strongly stimulated by doctoral programmes to deepen artists’ reflections on the roots, relevance and urgencies of their work. There are many reasons why an individual practitioner might decide to undertake a PhD: a desire to uplift one’s practice, to contribute to the intellectual artistic climate, to teach, to pursue an academic career, or some combination of these, or other reasons.

The rise of artistic research or practice-based research is subtly transforming these disciplines. The integration of research into practice, however, has not always been smooth, and the transformations not unequivocally positive.

For this book we issued an open call to ask artists how PhD research has influenced their making and thinking. Our questions were: What are the impacts, urgency, and significance of the PhD for creative practitioners? How are these understood, captured, communicated? How did it change your practice? We even asked: should creative practitioners undertake a PhD in the first place?

Through its thirty contributions Thinking Back, Making Forward tackles these questions in an open way, to acknowledge, equally, the advantages and disadvantages of the creep of the PhD into artistic practice. At the same time, this book shows a wide range of possibilities of what research in artistic practice can entail.