Chalmers Conferences, Transvaluation: Making the world matter

‘Your proposal does not fit in our editorial line’
Sepideh Karami

Last modified: 2015-08-18

Abstract


In this article I discuss the possibility and necessity of dissident researcher in academia. I investigate the strategies of interruption as methods of engaging with the institution through artistic research and approaches. Art as a dissensual activity turns artistic research to a dissident research that can question academic consensus instead of conforming its established structure. In order to construct a dissident researcher I go through three short architectural narrations of three places: a prison (as discipline), a school of architecture (as artistic research) and a library (as dominant discourse). These three narrations are combined with three formulae: amateur, fiction, misperformance or disloyalty; each enacts certain characteristics of dissidence that feeds to an on-going micro-project explained here. These all together try to bring up the question of how perceiving artistic research as dissident research modifies the conventional evaluation systems and sets up new evaluating strategies based on politics of dissidence.

Keywords


dissident; amateur; misperformance; interrupting architecture; artistic research; fiction

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