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EMERGENT MATTERS: a proposal for a collection of Art of the Higher Education Artistic Research in Portugal

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6th > 8th NOVEMBer 2023 I FBAUL

On November 6, 2023, at 5:00 PM, in the Lagoa Henriques Auditorium, Professor Dr. Costanza Barbieri (Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma) will present: The Research Turn: Workshops, Academies and the Artist’s Status from Renaissance to Modernity in which Barbieri asserts: “As an art historian, specialized in Renaissance and Baroque, I often deal with theAcademic and Research Turn (please forgive me this terminology) due to the change of status of the young artists, from the training in the workshop to the educational system of the Academies. I would like to show that a key factor in this process is artistic research and technological innovation, reshaping the scenario from the passive copy of the works of the master to the invention of new knowledge, often ratified by patents. In keeping with the experimental method that Leonardo first applied to artistic research, artists such as Ugo da Carpi, Sebastiano del Piombo and Parmigianino, developed new painting and printing techniques and, at the same time, looked for new support for painting on stone, marble or copper, competing with sculptors. Research and innovation, fundamental elements in the European educational evaluation system, are not yet recognized as foundational strategies in the approach to art, in line with all other disciplines. This aspect requires our attention as it provides an explanation even for the current gaps in many European countries’ regulations on PhDs”.

On November 7, also at 5:00 PM, in the Lagoa Henriques Auditorium, Professor Dr. Maibritt Borgen (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts) will present: Responding to conditions from within – fostering purposeful infrastructures for artistic research.

“Words may allow us to articulate and communicate the realizations that happen through material thinking, but as a mode of thought, material thinking involves a particular responsiveness to or conjunction with the intelligence of materials and processes in practice. Material thinking is the magic of handling.”

Prof. Barbara Bolt

Bringing into play the specific history, academic framework and administrative structure of the Ph.D in practice-based arts research in Denmark, this talk proposes to think about a practice-based PhD in arts research as responding to a set of conditions from within. If a PhD-project encapsulates an inert material thinking grounded in the particularities of the artistic practice, the embodied knowledge of the artist, and the interdisciplinary dialogue with other fields, how do we in response foster purposeful infrastructures for artistic research from within these conditions?

Both lectures can also be watched online via the zoom link:

Program
6/11 Room 2.07 (in-person)
Session with the EMERGING team and project consultants Constanza Barbieri, Maibritt Borgen and Sofia Marçal.
5:00 PM Conference in the Lagoa Henriques Auditorium (in-person and online)
Costanza Barbieri. The Research Turn: Workshops, Academies and the Artists Status from Renaissance to Modernity.
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/91279221396?pwd=NkpYL2ZLb2tWQTM3Y0ZGY3dPQllXZz09
ID da reunião: 912 7922 1396
Senha: 308623

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Program 7/11
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Lagoa Henriques Auditorium (in-person and online)
Presentation of EMERGING research results
5:00 PM Conference in the Lagoa Henriques Auditorium (in-person)
Maibritt Borgen. Responding to conditions from within – fostering purposeful infrastructures for artistic research.
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/95319029295?pwd=OGsrWHg3RU5oc1p6d2pDdmdaam5YUT09
ID da reunião: 953 1902 9295
Senha: 573261

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Program 8/11
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Lagoa Henriques Auditorium (in-person and online)
Presentation of the university art collection arC artistic research collection

Free registration, but mandatory (in-person and online) for November 7th and 8th: fernandomoletta@edu.ulisboa.pt

Bios:

Constanza Barbieri is a Professor of History of Modern Art and History of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome. She received his Ph.D. with scholarship from Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, and an Italian doctorate from “Sapienza”, University of Rome. She is a specialist in Sebastiano del Piombo and has been involved in a broader sense with the Cinquecento, iconographic and iconological themes, as well as visual contexts in relation to the history of ideas. He has an extensive list of publications and has organized various exhibitions and conferences, including the “Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo” exhibition in 2017.

Maibritt Borgen heads the Laboratory for Arts Research and is an associate professor of Art Theory at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art. Borgen holds a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University and is an alumni of the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Her research engages multiple entanglements of art and technology in the postwar period as well as the conditions for the production of knowledge (or awareness) through artistic research. She is currently at work on an article about the founding moments of digital life and its visual manifestations and heads the artistic research project Digital Materialities at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art. In 2023, she co-organized the Utrecht Summer School Supervising Artistic and Practice-based Research.

Since there have been theoretical-practical doctoral and post-doctoral programs in art in Portugal, many artists have been developing their work in an academic context. This activity has led to the formation of research communities that have greatly contributed to the advancement of knowledge in the field of fine arts, of which the project “Emergent matters: a proposal for a collection of art of the higher education artistic research in Portugal” is an excellent example. The consortium of public and private universities established by its research member has not only deepened our understanding of artistic research in the country but has also taken fundamental steps in the comprehension and study of contemporary art.

EMERGING is a pilot research project, funded by FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology), which draws upon the experiences of artists and university professors placed in strategic positions across various institutions of higher artistic education. The team comprises experienced mentors and researchers affiliated with R&D centers at the intersection of areas such as Drawing, Sculpture, Public Art, Painting, Dance, Performance, Multimedia, New Media, and Museology. The scholarship holder who is part of the project is its youngest member, holding a master’s degree in Sculpture, and actively collaborates in the study of art-based research, which is the primary focus of this project.

From November 6th to 8th, 2023, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, the EMERGING team will convene to present and discuss the results of their study with members of the academic ecosystem and the broader artistic community. Over three days, we will introduce the work that systematizes the artistic research produced in Portuguese universities between 2009 and 2022, which is at the origin of the university art collection arC - artistic research collection.

Investigadores / Researchers
Helena Elias (PI), Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
Sofia Ponte (CO-PI), IADE – Universidade Europeia
Jorge Marques, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade do Porto
Beatriz Cantinho , Escola das Artes da Universidade de Évora
Sérgio Vicente, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
Joao Castro Silva, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
Pedro Cardoso, Universidade de Aveiro
Margarida Alves, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
Bolseiro de Investigação / Research grantee
Fernando Flores Moletta, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa

Consultores / Consultants
Costanza Barbieri, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
Maibritt Borgen , Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Sofia Marçal, ICOM/ Museu de História Natural da Universidade de Lisboa