What is Research Now? July Festival
What is Research Now? presents a full year of programming around interconnected strands that ask us to think more curiously, critically and open-endedly about the role and practice of the arts.
The theme is led by the question: Can research in the arts enable us to live and better inhabit the world together? It will bring artists, curators, writers, scholars, and thinkers from a range of different backgrounds to think together through lectures, performances, conversations, and hands-on workshops at the Paul Mellon Centre in London.
In July, we explored three interconnected strands:
'Artificial Futures' is about art and AI in relation to how we work, our relationship with alterable histories and realities, and the ethics (environmental, social, emotional) of our collective artificial futures.
'Artists on Research' features a series of conversations with artists reflecting on research-based practice.
'Seeing in the Dark' asks how the acts of seeing and looking must go beyond the visible world as we grapple with our entangled colonial and capitalist presents.
The full programme can be found here.