SHELF
The Shelf is a virtual inventory of resources to read, watch, listen to and think with. We regularly invite researchers to share what lies on their desks and occupies their minds, silently or explicitly animating their research. Through The Shelf, we hope to activate a network of artistic research with new and spontaneous connections.
Climate Imaginaries
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
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ARIAS
The go-to reference for remembering again and again that "the climate crisis is also a crisis of the imagination", by Amitav Ghosh.
The Nutmeg’s Curse
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ARIAS
A discussion where Amitav Gosh unfolds the nutmeg's role in climate change, telling a story on the ways in which non-humans enter history.
Artificial Worlds
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The Broken Earth Trilogy
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Dorin Budusan
Fantasy world where people can attune to the earth & use its power to do incredible & terrible feats of magic & technology by N.K. Jemisin.
Making Kin with the Machines - Jason Edward Lewis, Noelani Arista, Archer Pechawis, and Suzanne Kite
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ARIAS
An important contribution, this essay offers an Indigenous perspective to our relationship with our non-human others.
A Cyborg Manifesto
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ARIAS
Donna Haraway's seminal intervention on technology, feminism, and our relation with machines, the world, and each other.
Algorithms of Oppression
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ARIAS
An important book by Safiya Umoja Noble discussing our naturalized and so invisible assistants, the search engines.
Algorithmic Intimacy
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ARIAS
Anthony Elliot's resource for understanding how we are living with algorithms, as well as how they are changing how we live with each other.
Excavating AI
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ARIAS
There are many ways to politicize the AI image, but Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen manage to offer us one of the most deep & thorough ones.
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
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ARIAS
Reading Legacy Russell's manifesto you cannot but be ready to travel through the glitch, embracing cyberfeminism & the revolutionary error.
New Ways of Seeing
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ARIAS
Anyone found themselves lost in John Berger's Ways of Seeing will find a new favourite in James Bridle's version for our algorithmic world.
Care Ecologies
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Howlround Theatre Commons - Creating Theatre on Zoom
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Natalia Sánchez Querubín
The essays below explore how people adapted to circumstances of Covid-19 lockdowns and reflect on the concept of performance.
Haunting hands: Mobile media practices and loss
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Natalia Sánchez Querubín
Kathleen M. Cumiskey and Larissa Hjorth explore cross-cultural case studies of mobile media use in personal and public mourning rituals.
Careful Thinking Podcast
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Marloeke van der Vlugt
At some point in life we will have the experience of caring for another person, or of being cared for ourselves. But what exactly is 'care'?
When Touching Becomes Contact
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Marloeke van der Vlugt
Marloeke van der Vlugt examines forms of care between artist, participant & material, and the challenges; aesthetic, ethical & spatial.
Art for the Sake of Care
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Marloeke van der Vlugt
An innovative and transformative work of more than 30 artists-academics on care, edited by Merel Visse & Elena Cologni.
Gaia and Philosophy
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Ania Molenda
The perspective of Lynn Margulis on life as a complex self-regulating system has been vital in beginning to understand relationality & care.
The Second Body
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Ania Molenda
Daisy Hildyard offers an inspiring and provocative invitation to connect with the worldwide network of ecosystems.
Simultaneity, Conference
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Haitian Ma
Min Oh’s converging soundscape draws out something elemental in the conversation, its limits, and our awareness in relation to each other.
“One day Pina asked…” (1983)
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Haitian Ma
Chantal Akerman on the performances & rehearsals of Pina Bausch & her dancers, having the camera stay and be lost in thought with them.
Towards Becoming an Ecology of Care
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Nienke Scholts
The Care Ecologies group reflects on different modes of exchange in being & becoming while reflecting on care in theory & practice.
Introductory Notes on an Ecology of Practices
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ARIAS
Isabelle Stenger's text we keep returning to, to build our pillars for how to think together & the ways in which we should work together.
Towards Becoming an Ecology of Care
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Care Ecologies Group
Here, our Care Ecologies group shared some initial principles for what an ecology of care could be and how we are trying to create it.
Ways of Knowing
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Approximation of Proximity: A Protocol
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ro heinrich
Something happens when we read together.
Poison
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Haitian Ma
Lok Vekemans shares the complexity in grief as a desire, and how we might unfold them in often difficult and hurtful conversation.
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
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Nduka Mntambo
"I think the rigour, joy, and musicality of the ideas in the text [by Stefano Harney & Fred Moten] might be of interest to the library."
The Minor Gesture
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Erica Biolchini
Erin Manning's "The Minor Gesture" opens a plurality of ways into the celebration of life and honours different bodies.
Embodying Theory: A kinaesthetic proposal to feminist pedagogy
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Kiek Korevaar, Rita Sousa & Muhammad Khurram (Embodied Theory Collective)
This essay by Embodied Theory Collective reflects the authors’ intervention in the ways of doing theory at Utrecht University.
From a Modern/Colonial Sensorium to Relational Response-ability
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ro heinrich
Sarah Amsler’s essay maps the violences of the modern/colonial sensorium and gestures towards an interbeing relational one.
Artists in the World - Zahia Rahmani and Ryan Inouye
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ARIAS
A discussion on how to resist colonisation by embracing non-western perspectives and transmitting more and different ways of knowing.
Against Method
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ARIAS
Approaching art and making as research, it is always inspiring to remember Erin Manning's critical insights for how to unlock its potential.
Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989–2017
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ARIAS
A great resource by Kuntshalle Wien, reminding us of the diversity of publishing, & how many forms of knowledge it can hold simultaneously.
For The Wild, Modes of Intelligence
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ARIAS
A valuable discussion between Ayana Young and guest James Bridle talking about different ways of being, and ways of thinking and knowing.
Miscellaneous
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Doing Artistic Research: A Collaboratory
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ARIAS
ARIAS' results of a symposium on how to do artistic research and how to do it together.
The Entanglement of Arts and Sciences, On the Transaction Costs of Transdisciplinary Research Settings
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ARIAS
A case study by Tröndle et al. exploring points of convergence & potential obstacles in trying to connect work through arts & science.
Next Generation: Shimmering nature with Elissa Brunato
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ARIAS
This article by Freya Hutchings explores intricate connections between technology, fashion & nature sciences in the work of Elissa Brunato.
Interview: Rachel Armstrong, Innovative Scientist Who Wants to Grow Architecture
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ARIAS
Rachel Armstrong in conversation with Alessia Andreotti, shares principles of her “living architecture” which will be able to repair itself.
The Nature of Transdisciplinary Research and Practice
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ARIAS
This text by Sue L.T. McGregor gives a deep and thorough account of transdisciplinarity & the different ways in which it has been practised.
Artistic Research and Literature
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ARIAS
This edited volume by Corina Caduff and Tan Wälchli is a multivocal approach to research through writing and literature.
The Academy is Back: On Education, the Bologna Process, and the Doctorate in the Arts
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ARIAS
Dieter Lessage shows the first inquiries into the formal relationship between artistic research & academia from the Bologna Process.
SHARE Handbook For Artistic Research Education
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ARIAS
A handbook by Mick Wilson and Schelten van Ruiten that offers insights into artistic research from an institutional & practical standpoint.
ANTI THESIS: Towards a doctoral framework for embodied artistic research
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ARIAS
Janneke van Leeuwen's essay on moving beyond the written thesis towards artistic research doctoral projects built around embodied practices.
Futures Of Artistic Research
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ARIAS
This book by Kaila Jan et al. gathers contributions that reflect on what artistic research has taught us, & how to navigate into its future.
Art and Research: A Portrait of a Humanities Faculty as an Inclusive Workspace
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ARIAS
This article by Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes thinks on and employs artistic research as a tool for aiding inclusivity in institutional contexts.
Fieldings Propositions For 3rd Cycle Research In The Performing Arts
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ARIAS
This book by Sher Doruff gathers together projects and ways of working around artistic research education in the performing arts.
Open Source / Sharing Knowledge in Artistic Research
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ARIAS
Barnaby Drabble & Federica Martini connect software development & artistic research via insights gathered from use of open-source concepts.
Artistic Res/Arch: The propositional experience of mattering
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ARIAS
A full-fleshed perspective for the "how" of researching through art and the material, by Sherr Doruff.