Citation: European Artistic Research Network (EARN) annual conference

Keynote speakers: Catherine Grant, Birkbeck, University of London and Anselm Franke, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin

Citation is the 2019 edition of the European Artistic Research Network (EARN) conference which is convened by the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds in partnership with Leeds Art Gallery and Pavilion. During the conference we will explore the pluralised viewpoint that our contemporary critical methods demand, addressing the ways in which artist-researchers or curatorial practices take positions on or emphasise shifting patterns of coexistent temporalities within the historical, social, political and economic contexts of contemporary visual culture. Contributions will address questions such as (a) How do viewpoints that fragment, multiply or compete bring into question notions of proximity and complicity, i.e. the distances and engagements that artists can choose to have or not have in the societies they live in and the industries they depend upon? or (b) How do contexts and histories bear on all of our sensory experiences of making and viewing—building upon existing images, events, documents, materials, performances, theories and testimonies, all of which are themselves already intertextual, mediated “migrations”?

For conference registration click here. For further information, please email earnleeds2019 [​at​] gmail.com or contact Azadeh Fatehrad.

Artistic and academic contributions for Citation 2019 includes Anneke Kampman (The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL), Assel Kadyrkhanova (University of Leeds), Cole Robertson (Royal College of Art, London), Denise Ziegler, Petri Kaverma and Tero Heikkinen (University of the Arts Helsinki), Doreen Mende (Geneva University of Art and Design), Elliot Mason (Kings College London), Emma Bolland (Sheffield Hallam University), Hermione Spriggs (The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL), Hoda Siahtiri (LUCA School of Arts, Brussels), Jane Boyer (Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University) , Jaana Kokko (University of the Arts Helsinki), Małgorzata Dawidek (The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL), Marie Hallager Andersen (Independent Dance Artist), Marloeke van der Vlugt (HKU University of the Arts Utrecht), Naomi Siderfin (The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL), Nick Aikens (Valand Art Academy, University of Gothenburg), Prof Alan O’Leary (University of Leeds), Tuula Närhinen (University of the Arts Helsinki) and Vivian Kuang Sheng (University of Hong Kong). 

EARN (European Artistic Research Network) was established to share and exchange knowledge and experience in artistic research; foster mobility, and dialogue among art researchers; and promote wider dissemination of artistic research. EARN Members including Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts; Utrecht, MaHKU, Graduate School of Visual Art and Design; Vienna, Akademie der bildenden Künste; Malmö Art Academy, Lund University; London, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL; Venice, Università Iuav di Venezia; Gothenburg, Valand Academy of Arts, University of Gothenburg; Brussels, Hogeschool Sint-Lukas; School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds; and Dublin, Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media (GradCAM).

The 2019 edition of the European Artistic Research Network (EARN) conference is organised by Georgia Taylor Aguilar, Sam Belinfante, Sarah Brown, Gail Day, Kerstin Doble, Azadeh Fatehrad, Maki Fukuoka, Abigail Harrison Moore, Robert Knifton, Jo McGonigal, Peter Morton, Gill Park, Griselda Pollock, William Rose, Nick Thurston, Christopher Taylore and Zara Worth in partnership with Leeds Art Gallery and Pavilion. The conference is hosted by the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Citation is generously supported by Artists’ Writings and Publications Research Centre, Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation, and Centre for Practice Research in the Arts University of Leeds.