Understanding Practice: Art & Research of Precision Event

Understanding Practice is a new event series hosted by the ZFF and the PhD in Art Program. With our renowned guests, we explore their respective practices and experiences, questioning the possibilities of understanding and practising art and research together. In both a staged performance or lecture and a conversational workshop and exchange format, we will dive into different perspectives of art and research. This approach allows for an encounter with the work of the invited guests, as well as a joint reflection of their practice and its specific challenges and implications.

ART & RESEARCH OF PRECISION
With Aurea Klarskov & Markus Krajewski. May 11-12, 2022

At the intersection of art and science exactitude and chance meet.
– Aurea Klarskov

While exactitude is considered an epistemic virtue, pedantry occasionally turns out to be an epistemic vice.
– Markus Krajewski

What is the role of exactitude in artistic practices and the processes of knowledge formation? The aim of our Basel and Zurich based interdisciplinary research group “Media of Exactitude” was to analyze practices of knowledge production in the social sciences, the arts, and the humanities. Based on our experience, we invite to reflect diverse practices and changing notions of “exactitude” at the intersection of the arts and sciences. We want to encourage artists to engage in a discussion of their work and the practices of exactitude it involves.

Guests
Aurea Klarskov is a historian of art and is currently finishing her dissertation on the notion of exactitude in the work of Marcel Duchamp.

Markus Krajewski teaches history and theory of media at the University of Basel.

Registration
Please contact zff@uni-ak.ac.at if you want to join the impulse on May 11 and the workshop sessions on May 12, 2022!