How to make the “creation & destruction” artistic research meaningful for students?
I will start by giving a short lecture on the new research project for the coordinators. With their help and in consultation with the departmental teachers I would like to find a small number of students who may be interested in the research question. I hope to find these students by presenting my research subject and the possible research questions to the interested departments. The students who want to participate will not be expected to function as research assistants. The idea is for them to set up an Artistic Research of their own based on the same subject and with a few specific research questions. Holding regular meetings in which experiences or developments are presented to the research group can lead to the exchange of ideas, materials, concepts, new research questions and relevant literature. It might develop into a collaboration of researchers each studying a different section. Each one is researching a part of the complete picture to be formed later.
The students in the research group should be rewarded for their work and findings and this should count towards their overall appraisal. The outcome of artistic research with this subject is unpredictable but the experience of last year’s workshop suggests that a non-committal structure should be avoided. The students’ engagement in the project will be given weight if it is reflected in their assessment. Compiling a booklet and organising an exhibition of the results could also stimulate engagement.
It could also be stimulating for the researchers to have the research project integrated into the academy’s programme by organising a symposium or one-day master class based on the research project subject and the material produced by the research group. Carel Blotkamp and Dario Gamboni who have published on the subject could be invited. Artists like Gert-Jan Kocken, Keiko Sato, Gustav Metzger and Jean-Pierre Raynaud who have worked on this subject could also make interesting contributions. Moreover, writers working with the opposite idea of destruction, who work from a conviction for the progressive and positive purely creational could be invited. And who knows what else the research group might encounter along the way.
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