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New modes of epistemic relationships in artistic research
Research is a process thatleads to new insights rupturing the existent fabric of knowledge. To preventthis process from disintegrating, its coherence must be assured. Under theheading transposition, seventeenartists, musicians, and theorists explain how one thing may turn into anotherin a spatio-temporal play of identity and difference that has the power to expandinto the unknown.

While it does notattempt to define the still evolving field of artistic research, through theidea of transposition this book aims to grasp a quality increasingly importantto artistic practice because representational approaches have been losingtraction. Taking to heart the lessons of deconstruction, new modes of epistemicrelationships are being invented that include aesthetic dimensions. Workingwith materially concrete positions in a manner familiar to artists can ensurethat knowledge does not decay into relativism.

Contributors: Annette Arlander(University of the Arts Helsinki), Paulo de Assis (Orpheus Institute, Ghent), Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University), Leif Dahlberg (Royal Institute ofTechnology Stockholm), Lucia D'Errico (Orpheus Institute, Ghent), Mika Elo(University of the Arts Helsinki), Laura González (Royal Conservatoire ofScotland), Esa Kirkkopelto (University of the Arts Helsinki), Yve Lomax (RoyalCollege of Art, London), Cecile Malaspina (CNRS-Université Paris 1/UniversitéParis 7), Tor-Finn Malum Fitje (independent artist, Oslo), Dieter Mersch(Zurich University of the Arts), David Pirrò (University of Music andPerforming Arts Graz), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for theHistory of Science, Berlin), Hanns Holger Rutz (University of Music andPerforming Arts Graz), Michael Schwab (Orpheus Institute, Ghent/University ofApplied Arts Vienna), Birk Weiberg (ZurichUniversity of the Arts)