The 13th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research will take place from March 29th to April 1st, 2022, for the first time in Germany at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The conference will consist of a 24-hour online event and three days of live, on-site events in Weimar.

The SAR 2022 conference will present the state of the art in Artistic Research, as critically responding to the Frascati Manual and the Vienna Declaration on Artistic Research: excellent research through means of high-level artistic practice and reflection; an epistemic inquiry, directed towards increasing knowledge, insight, understanding and skills. The declaration also states that artistic research fulfils the five criteria for research as defined in the OECD framework document for research, the Frascati Manual. With this document, the artistic research community has taken an important step towards a broader recognition of artistic research worldwide. The SAR 2022 conference program will give special attention to creating spaces of inclusivity and diversity. Submissions from persons of colour, with disabilities, and from LGBTQIA+ communities are especially encouraged.

The detailed programme of the 13th International Conference on Artistic Research will be published in January 2022. Ticketing and registration opens on the 24th of January 2022. Stay tuned! The conference will manifest in two modes: A 24 hour “long conversation” online, offering a variety of successive presentations throughout different time zones, and a three-day gathering in Weimar, providing the opportunity for focused sessions, exchange and workshops in physical presence. For the “long conversation”, presenters are asked to moderate the discussion of the speaker immediately following their own, interweaving call and response elements of presenting. For the on-site part of the conference, artistic researchers of all disciplines are invited to meet and collaborate in sessions and workshops within a spatially decentralized and Covid-hygiene-approved programme in Weimar.

More information and applications: https://sar2022.uni-weimar.de/about