Consdierations for Art Research and Reordering Collective Imagination
A place to explore thought that puzzles, confuses, and excites
Art research may be every activity done to learn, pratice, engage, create,and teach,
art to oneself and with others.
It may also include the use of art making and astistic inquiry in the methods and processes of research in other disciplines, such as design, technology, medical research, architecture, environmental research and so forth.
Or it may just be whatever work is deemed by government and private foundations legimate to receiving funding.
Art research is essential to shaping collective imagination about the future possibilities of societal transformation and reording.
- Non-funded art research is taking place every day all around
- What are the limits of art reserch without the philanthropic capital to deepen and expand it?
- How can heavy reliance on funding to conduct robost art research be circumvented?
Reordering Collective Imagination
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Artists, local neighborhoods, grassroots and service-based organizations, academics, research centers, small businesses are investigating and experimenting with the solidatry economy and decentralization.
From the understanding that alternatives are imperative for the physical and existential survivial and sustainability of human life.
A sector of researchers, organizations, creatives, and academics are dreaming up models for an "ethical", "green" or "humane" capitalism.
Some, devising mechanisms to utilize the methods of capitalism to perserve themselves from its present and future predictions of dystopia.
- How can art research help to reorder collective imagination to contribute to efforts to designing, building, testing alternative infastructures to captialist ways of producing and ordering the resources of life, culture, and human experience?
- How can art research take its place as foundational to our ability to imagine elsewhere, else-what, and else-how, espeically if philanthropy struggles (or refuses) to imagine the possibilities of art research?
- How can art research develop pedagogies help people shift into post-capitalist, decolonial belief systems not through intellect first, but first through the body's senses and affect?