Danny Butt, Yara Guasque, Manuel Ángel Macía, Michael Schwab, Mareli Stolp, Mariela Yeregui
Decolonising the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR)
Since 2019 JAR has started to allow submissions in Spanish, Portuguese and German as well as English. This move has quickly challenged ideas of translation not only of terms but also of how artistic research may relate to local practices. Rather than conceiving of this development as an extension of the journal, JAR wants to use it to raise uneasy questions about its own Europe-centeredness, which is still at play even though with art we defend the outsiders in the field of knowledge. How does JAR’s approach to the expositionality of research articulations relate to decoloniality? What would we need to address if we were to decolonising the Journal for Artistic Research?
A panel of JAR editors will introduce and expand on some of these issues in short individual presentations before entering a dialogue and a debate with the audience. Whenever possible, we will use past JAR publications to illustrate the presentation and to make tangible how issues of coloniality and decolonialsation have always already mattered to what we have been publishing.
Panel: Danny Butt, Yara Guasque, Manuel Ángel Macía, Michael Schwab, Mareli Stolp (video), Mariela Yeregui.
The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an international, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal that disseminates artistic research from all disciplines. JAR invites the ever-increasing number of artistic researchers to develop what for the sciences and humanities are standard academic publication procedures. It serves as a meeting point of diverse practices and methodologies in a field that has become a worldwide movement with many local activities.
JAR provides a digital platform where multiple methods, media and articulations may function together to generate insights in artistic research endeavours. It seeks to promote expositions of practice as research. In JAR artistic research is viewed as a developing field where research and art are positioned as mutually influential. Recognising that the field is ever developing and expanding, JAR remains open to continued re-articulations of its publishing criteria.
The JAR Network further facilitates exchange among the artistic research community. This part of the site is an extension of JAR rather than part of the peer reviewed journal. In the Network we publish writing that actively responds to issues in the field, allowing JAR to give focus to developments and make public some of the important discussions that artistic researchers have in their own local contexts.