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At this third inter-institutional research seminar during spring 2025, the focus will be on language in artistic research. SKH's Vice Rector for Research has invited Tale Næss, Norwegian dramaturg, playwright, and author, as well as editor of the upcoming issue of VIS, which has the title LANGUAGE/LANGUAGED/LANGUAGING.
 

In the call, VIS writes:
In this issue, we are looking for contributions that explore the role of language in artistic research. This could be artistic research that experiments with language as a tool for reflection, that goes against it and/or moves around it. That operates with polylingual approaches or questions the position language has had, especially within artistic research.

Language is often used to bridge the gap between artistic practice and reflection, both to contextualize the research and communicate research results. More often than not, this entails an act of translation. As in all translations, the praxis can get lost in the process of turning artistic events into language. We are looking for contributions that examine what is lost in this process. Contributions that explore what can be found, and those that look at ways of bridging or exploring the gap between doing art and making language. We are also interested in explorations that consider language as a tool for reflection or as artistic exploration in itself.

Anne Gry Haugland’s research has explored language as a form of communication, artistic material, and – through her interest in natural philosophy and biosemiotics – as a natural form. She has also focused specifically on reflective and linguistic forms in artistic research. At the seminar, Anne Gry and Tale will present and discuss their work on language and reflection in relation to the VIS call.

About Tale Næss