Obliquo Book Look boekenbeurs

• Valiz is aanwezig op de boekenbeurs Book Look in Pordenone, Italië
• Op zondag 20 september houdt Mirna Vrdoljak een talk en presenteert Thinking Back, Making Forward

Wat: Boekenbeurs Book Look
Wanneer: Vrijdag 18 september 17.30–21.00, zaterdag 19 september 10.30–21.00, zondag 20 september 10.30–18.30
Waar: Ex Convent of Saint Francesco, Via della Motta, 13, 33170 Pordenone PN, Italy
Toegang: Gratis
Taal: Engels

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Valiz is dit jaar voor het eerst aanwezig op Book Look: een boekenbeurs georganiseerd door Obliquo. De beurs is onderdeel van het boekenfestival Pordenonelegge in Pordenone, Italië. Valiz' projectredacteur Mirna Vrdoljak zal daar drie dagen aanwezig zijn, en op zondagochtend 20 september een presentatie houden ter gelegenheid van de onlangs bij Valiz' verschenen publicatie Thinking Back, Making Forward. 

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.