Conversation as a Research Method in Artistic Research

An International Research Workshop with Duška Radosavljević

Why is research in theatre solitary when theatre is a collaborative form? To what extent does artistic research make a contribution to the shared pool of knowledge, and to what extent does it serve the researcher alone? What are the cultural inflections/ variations of artistic research protocols? And what affordances of dialogue, conversation and collaboration can be made available to transnational knowledge production?

This international three-day encounter of early career researchers, led by Duška Radosavljević, is designed to tackle inherent solipsism in arts and humanities research and seek to establish new methods for meaningful collaborative knowledge production across borders and languages.

Aims:

- To facilitate an international encounter and knowledge/skills exchange between PhD students/graduates from Brazil, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom

- To map out different contexts and understandings of ‘knowledge production’ and ‘artistic research’

- To explore dialogic means of knowledge production and scope for collaboration - To envisage some futures of collaborative knowledge production

Structure:

• Day 1: 'Contexts of Artistic and Practice-Based Research’ 9.00-11.00 - Individual introductions of participants and their projects 11.15-13.00 - Duška’s presentation on ‘Formalising conversation as a means of knowledge production: Auralia.Space *Salons*’

• Day 2: 'Exploring the affordances of conversation and dialogue for knowledge production’ 9.00 – 13.00 - Workshopping the Salon format of knowledge production

• Day 3: 'Collaborations and Coalitions' – Futuregazing and Blue Sky Thinking An open space conferencing session on expanding and diversifying research methods: How can we take artistic research forward in collaborative ways, in coalition with an 'other', across disciplines, across international contexts...?

Participants: Students from Doctoral School of UAT Targu Mures, Students from Doctoral School of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Students from Eötvös Loránd University and University of Theater and Film Arts Budapest, Hungary, Students from Malmö Theatre Academy and Students from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama