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“Studies in Visual Arts and Communication – an international journal”Volume 10 – Nr 2, 2023 |
Table of Contents
Dec 2023; 10(2)
1. Cătălin Gheorghe
Art as Journalism as Critical Artistic Research
Studies in Visual Arts and Communication – an international journal / Dec 2023 10(2)
ABSTRACT
Different forms of visual and discursive communication transformed practices in the field of art. One relevant turn in the thinking and production of art is based on the intricate philosophies and practices of ‘artistic research’. Using journalistic practice as a key model of problematization and positioning in the social field, the artist as a researcher engages in protocols and operations of informing public opinion and mediating the formation of an agentified audience. As such, journalistic artworks can be perceived as critical projects that can expose conditions of social inequity, political hegemony, and economical precarity in their investigations and performances. Examples of artworks produced by Schlingensief, Boulos, and Sekula with Burch are used to prove the formation of a paradigm of “art as experimental journalism” based on the practice of critical artistic research.
Keywords: art as journalism, artistic research, critical research, agentified audience, public opinion.